Secondary Scholarship!!! Flashcards
(10 cards)
PATER PATRIAE
“He was not only the Pater Patriae but…
also Pater Orbis, father of the world.”- Peter Zanker
CULTURE HERO
“His considerate…
brave image made it possible for the prosperous of Rome.”- Andrew Zhang
IMPERATOR
“Augustus was anxious to…
get beyond the memories of the civil war.” -Galinsky
“rose…
tinted view.” -Mary Beard
DIVI FILIUS
“He violently objected to…
the divine cult of him in Rome itself.” - Sniezewski
IMPERATOR
“Augustus does not exactly hide his military…
activities: he may not say much about his imperrum but assuredly he is far from taciturn about the exploits of ‘his’ navy and ‘his’ army.”
-E.T Salmon
AUGUSTUS RELIGIOUS LEADER
“Augustus had also presented himself…
as the great restorer of Roman religious tradition.” - Nelson de Paiva Bondioli
ON THE MAUSOLEUM
“partly an…
aggressive assertion of the emperor’s power.” - Mary Beard
ON THE RES GESTAE
“the account of…
achievements might be highly selective.”
- Brunt & Moore
DIVI FILIUS
“The deification of Caesar as Divi Iulius was the…
basis for substitution of the unparalleled patronymic (…) Son of God.” - Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
