Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Text, Translation, and Commentary

This book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history.

Augustus (Author), Alison E. Cooley (Author)

9780521601283, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 May 2009

331 pages, 34 b/w illus. 5 maps
24.8 x 17.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.66 kg

"...Alison Cooley provides what will be the standard textbook for the RGDA in this generation... Cooley has provided students and colleagues with an edition of the RGDA that will serve as a textbook and as a work of reference. ..a book that is at the same time a pleasure to read and highly useful. That is no small accomplishment." --BMCR

At the end of his life the emperor Augustus wrote an account of his achievements in which he reviewed his rise to power, his conquest of the world and his unparalleled generosity towards his subjects. This edition provides a text, translation and detailed commentary - the first substantial one in English for more than four decades - which is suitable for use with students of all levels. The commentary deals with linguistic, stylistic and historical matters. It elucidates how Augustus understood his role in Roman society, and how he wished to be remembered by posterity; and it sets this picture that emerges from the Res Gestae into the context of the emergence both of a new visual language and of an official set of expressions. The book also includes illustrations in order to demonstrate how the Augustan era witnessed the rise of a whole new visual language.

Introduction
Text and translation
Commentary
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]