This week, the Professor continues his summer series on religion and epic poetry. "Now, I am warning you," I tell the undergraduates on the first day of class, "This is a very politically incorrect class. We"re going to be talking about sexism, imperialism, human slavery, violence and images of naked idols. If these topics bother you, then you need to take class about nice people. Of course, I do not condone any of these terrible things. But when you teach the history of ancient Rome, certain issues come up. And this is one of your textbooks." At this moment in the discussion I hold up "The Aeneid" of P. Vergilius Maro, commonly known as Virgil, who lived from 70 to 19 B.C. Along with the Bible and Shakespeare, it is one of the most influential books in the history of literature. Unlike...
... antiquity by the alleged ancestor of Augustus, Aeneas, the last surviving prince of Troy. To jus...
...--the Ides of March--44 BCE, Mark Antony, Octavian and M. Aemilius Lepidus were appointed the three "... Octavian (later to become the emperor Augustus) from undermining his political standing at home b...
... them--Caesar and Antony--but the third, Octavian, who would go on to become the Roman Emperor Augus...
This Sunday marks a curious date in world history. It is the anniversary of the suicide of Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, best known by the name Brutus, the protege of Julius Caesar, who assisted in Caesar's murder on the Ides of March, March 15, 44 BC. But while Brutus is well know to dusty dry Roman historians like myself, he is best remembered by the students of Shakespeare. Of Brutus, Shakespeare says:
... Mark Anthony and his nephew and heir Octavian Caesar. Anthony and Octavian had many differences ...Octavian would become in time Caesar Augustus, the ruler mentioned in the Christian New Testamen...
Die Bildnisse des Augustus, Das romische Herrscherbild, pt. 1, vol. 2 . Berli... to focus only on the coin portraiture of Octavian/Augustus, Paul Zanker took over the project, [1] b...
Anthony Everitt did a remarkable thing a few years ago when he turned Latin students' most loathed subject into a best selling star with "Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician." In fleshing out the ingenious, idealistic and near-repellent narcissist, Mr. Everitt set his mark as the premier Roman biographer except for that "greatest politician" part, which one hopes was an overzealous publisher's mistake. Mr. Everitt returns to first century B.C. Rome with a politician who truly deserves that appellation, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus. It is an ambitious choice for a second book, but Mr. Everitt handles one of history's most complicated personages with considerable skill. Whereas Cicero left behind a voluminous collection of speeches, books a...
... exploring the interplay between Octavian/Augustus, the Triumvirate he was part of, the Batt...
Antony and Cleopatra, the names conjure up a variety of images that include Roman military might, eastern decadence and a pair of tragic star-crossed lovers. Some of that is actually accurate, but much of it is romanticized fiction. In his latest study of the Roman world, Adrian Goldsworthy takes on the task of separating truth from fiction, and he does a good job of it.
...Octavian Caesar was his nephew, adopted son and heir. Cleop...Octavian became the emperor Augustus and essentially ruled well for many years. The bet...
While the great playwrights Shakespeare and Shaw have helped immortalize her, let's face it, the name Cleopatra summons up images straight out of Hollywood - not Egypt or the London stage. Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert and a host of other beauties have oozed sex on the screen as the "whore queen," a woman who had two of the most powerful men in the Hellenistic world - Julius Caesar and Marc Antony - succumbing to her charms during her reign in the middle of the first century B.C.
...And it's because Octavian, later the Emperor Augustus, had to have a great o...
...and again by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus) after his sea victory in t...
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