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AUGUSTUS AND THE AUGUSTAN AGE. The name of Augustus was the title of honour given by the Romans to the emperor Caius Julius Octavianus, or, as the was originally designated, Caius Octavius. This totle was intended to be hereditary in his family, but all the succeeding Caesars or emperors of...
Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus C[ae]sar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature,...
| Advisor(s): McCarthy, Kathleen | Abstract: The idea of an `Augustan discourse' represents a valuable step forward from the twentieth-century belief that Augustus ruled through patronage and propaganda, insofar as it better accommodates the polyvocality of the literature of his age as ...