Secondary Scholarship Flashcards
Beard (on the Mausoleum)
”.. an aggressive assertion of … his dynastic aspirations..”
Horsfall (On Suetonius)
“Here we have an altogether more humane, human, and agreeable Princeps..”
Beard (On the poets in Rome)
“The work they produced offers a memorable … image of a new golden age for Rome..”
Segal (On Ovid’s Metamorphoses)
”..of all Caesar’s achievements none were greater than fathering Augustus..”
Zanker (On Apollo)
“The relationship with Apollo would prove ideally suited to Octavian..”
Beard (On the Res Gestae)
“It … carefully glosses or entirely ignores the murderous illegalities of his early career.”
Beard (On Julius Caesar)
“Caesar was Octavian’s passport to power.”
Beard (On Cleopatra)
“By focusing on [Cleopatra] rather than Antony, Octavian could present the war as one fought by a foreign rather than Roman enemy.”
Jenkyns (On the poets of Rome)
”..as propagandists the poets were useless.”
Brunt and Moore (On the Res Gestae)
“What is omitted in such an account may be as informative as what is stated.”
Nicholls (On the Ara Pacis being comissioned by the senate)
”..remember that in this age other people also made enthusiastic noises about Augustus’ policies and themes.”
Galinsky (On the Ludi Saeculares)
“The health of the new Saeculum … was to depend on the moral blessing of Romans.”
Smith (On the Sebasteion)
“The emperors are here shown as new, active members of the traditional Olympian pantheon.”
Thommen (On the Sebasteion)
”..these were not typical imperial representations … and may allude to Aphrodesias’ close relations with the Roman Empire.”
Wallace Hadrill (On Mark Antony)
“Antony was an (almost) innocent victim: a man unmanned, and a Roman un-Romanned.”
