Scholarship Imperial Image Flashcards
Who said Augustus presented his powers as a limited-term provision for a specific purpose because he had to avoid open autocracy?
John Rich
Who said Octavian wanted to maintain complete control and that this happened in stages between 28 and 27BC?
Kevin Butcher
Who said Propertius exhibits cognitive dissonance?
Nandini Pandey
Who said Augustus prefers to be allusive and indirect?
Galinsky
Who said that the pole in the Prima Porta statue is most likely to be a spear- as Doryphoros had a spear?
Galinsky
Who said Propertius set himself up against what a Roman should do?
Trimble
Who said Galla in Chaste and faithful Galla won’t ultimately be chaste?
Jacobson
Who said Metamorphoses is a metaphor for the changes happening under Augustus- and that because the changes are often painful and slow it is critical of the changes to Rome? And that the element of continuity in the changes to Rome may be a metaphor for Augustus retaining his ruthlessness
Wallace-Hadrill
Who said Augustanism isn’t a main theme of Metamorphoses but an afterthought?
Little
Who said the father-son parallels in Metamorphoses are problematic as all the examples given ended badly?
Moulton
Who said the praise of Caesar in Metamorphoses is superficially polite?
Segal
Who said that Augustus was giving Rome hope of maintaining peace by restoring religion?
Morgan
Who said Horace’s own self-presentation is composite- part Augustan, part Horace?
Marks
Who said we regard Horace as like us?
Morgan
Who said the Carmen Saeculares links to marital fecundity and the future hope of Rome as it was sung by an equal number of male and female children?
Galinsky
Who said To Augustus praises Augustus more directly than ever before?
Lowrie
Who said Drusus and the Claudians evades the question of lineage and shifts the focus to Augustus as “trainer”?
Johnson
Who said Drusus and the Claudians shows the darker side of war?
Reckford
Who said that on the Ara Pacis there are images of abundance and prosperity everywhere you look and all the imagery evokes pride in the Romans?
Hughes and Smith
Who said Octavian uses Julius Caesar for legitimacy?
Kevin Butcher
Who said Caesar was Octavian’s ‘passport to power’?
Mary Beard
Who said Octavian was a mixture of sadism, scandal and illegality?
Mary Beard
Who said the Carmen Saeculare links Augustus’ return with the return of prosperity and stability to Rome?
Cornwell
Who said the Forum of Augustus is in its entirety Augustus’ intended message as it was a blank slate?
Nicholls
Who said the typical visitor to the Forum wouldn’t have grasped the entire message but wouldn’t have escaped without picking up on some of it and that people may have become jaded with the images?
Zanker
Who said on the Ara Pacis leaders walk amongst the people as equals and Augustus is shown as first among equals?
Nicholls
Who said Augustus’ Mausoleum was Roman through and through?
Goldsworthy
Who said in Suetonius there is a major problem of generalisation which results in exaggeration?
Wardle
Who said the Res Gestae offers an impression of how Augustus wanted to be remembered?
Cooley
Who said in talking about his conquests in the Res Gestae Augustus implies he has influence over the whole known world and is better than Alexander the Great?
Cooley
Who said the purpose of A Toast to Actium was to disguise the civil aspects of the war?
Cairns
Who said that Suetonius presents Augustus as an altogether more humane, human, agreeable princeps?
Horsfall
Who said the Sebasteion shows the fortunate position of the Greek work under Roman imperial rule?
RRR Smith
Who says that the visual imagery must take into account the totality of images?
Zanker
Who says that it is important to challenge the view of a trickle down propaganda- not all made by Augustus- communities were engaged with the imperial image?
Williams
