Imperial Image scholarship

Karl Galinsky - new age

Augustus' new age was dependent on the moral effort of the romans particularly the ruling class

Andrew Wallace- Hadrill

in the myth of Actium, Augustus fought as a soldier to save roman civilization and values from corruption

Karl Galinsky - religion

Augustus' religious policy aimed to elevate his own position

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill - religion

Augustus reorentated religion around himself placing himself at the heart of the system

Zanker - Octavian and Apollo

Octavian used Apollo's nature to establish his own public image, before Actium this was discipline and morality. after Actium it was singing, music peace and reconciliation

Zanker - Antony and Dionysus

Antony used Dionysus to shape his public image and he began to believe this and live like him. This worked in Egypt but did not fit with the roman values

McCuster

visual imagery in antiquity was a language in it's own right

G. Woolf - convincing story

the atrocities at the end of the republic made it impossible to tell a convincing story of Rome only in terms of successive acts of heroism and piety

Glenis Davies - Livia

Livia was a role model for other women

Bradley

buildings are strong propaganda

Lily Ross Taylor

Ceasar appears to have had unlimited funds for bribery

Harris

only 10% of the roman population were literate

G Woolf - Civial war

the story of Romulus and Remus shows that Civil war was written into the roman psyche

H.H. Scullard

Octavian maintained his power through a predominant military power and the ultimate sanction of his authority was force, however much that fact was disguised

Werner Eck

Augustus' power came from 3 places - his official titles, his large private fortune and his patron client relationships

Galinsky

coins would hardly sway hearts and minds

Simpson

we don't know if the prima porta represents Augustus' Parthian achievement, just that the statue has been given a context and a date by modern scholars and the whole thing is mealy conjecture sanctified by reputation

Dianne Favro

Augustus' parental attitude towards the city is evident

Lily Ross Talor - Preisthood

young men of noble families often obtained priesthoods early in their careers and nearly always rose to the highest offices in the state

Glenys Davies

a mucho appearance is at its most exaggerated in portraits in military dress(such as the prima porta)

Mary beard

Caesar was Augustus's passport to power

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

like Arachne's transformation into a spider Augustus' transformation of Rome was a long and gradual prosses

Alison Cooley

work on Augusus’’’ mausoleum started before Actium and therefore was intended to demonstrate his commitment to Rome in contrast to Antony

Alison Cooley

one of the main messages of the res gestae is that Augustus had concurred the world

Wardle

one of the main issues with Suetonius is that he attributes one of examples to repeated actions

Brunt and Moore

Augustus could not make any directly untrue claims, we can relay on statements of fact but should be careful with facts that require interpretations of facts

K. Galingsky - secular games

the health of the new saeculum was dependent on the moral effort of the Romans