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Augustus Links

Classics 0.1: "Roman Emperors: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly"
Fall term 2001.

[For Inaugural Lecture by JVS CLICK HERE]

Search	Http://www.google.com/search?q=augustus [source for everything below, plus every Prince, Poet, Lawyer, Painter ever named in honor of the Roman Emperor: nice testimony to his prestige & Rome's]
"Deeds of Divine Augustus"	His own account of his accomplishments, written by himself [translation with useful commentary] http://www.umich.edu/~classics/cc/372/sibyl/db/H002.html
PBSeries	Http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/index.html
Time & Place	Http://www.roman-emperors.org/auggie.htm [A superb biographical sketch, with links to coinage (see also below) that shows image & idea of propaganda at each stage in career] Http://icg.harvard.edu/~hist1085/handouts/tml.Aug.html http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pompeii/sgamap.html http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/Triumviral_Period_L.jpeg
Biography	http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/modules/clh219.htm Http://www.umich.edu/~classics/cc/372/sibyl/en/Augustus.html http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost02/Suetonius/sue_vc02.htmlhttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/Octavian.html http://www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_110/Augustus.html Http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/Octavian.html http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/Augustus.html Http://icg.harvard.edu/~hist1085/handouts/0207.Aug.html Http://icg.harvard.edu/~hist1085/syllabus.html
Family Tree	Http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/stemmata/julclst.jpg
Sources for Life	Http://virgil.org/augustus/primary-sources.htm Http://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/classics/dave_stuff/augustus.html
Art & Architecture	Guide to Sites Illustrating Works Commissioned by or Honoring Augustus Http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/Augustus.html#Augsites His life & monuments: Http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/augustus.html His Statue from Prima Porta http://www.vatican.va/museums/patrons/documents/vm_pat_doc_14101999_augustus_en.html#top http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/primaporta/Augustus.htm Forum & temple of Mars Avenger http://www.siba.fi/~kkoskim/rooma/pages/FAUGUSTU.HTM Http://www.capitolium.org/eng/fori/augusto.htm Altar of Augustan Peace http://www.carthage.edu/outis/augart.html#aeneas http://www.comune.roma.it/cultura/italiano/monumenti/monumenti/antichi/mausoleo_augusto/#inglese http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/augs/hd_augs.htm Temple from Dendur (Egypt) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/04/afe/ho_68.154.htm
Mausoleum	http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/CLASSICS/sites/coleman/maus.htm Http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/rome/tomb_augustus/ac822933.html http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/romanmausaug/romanmausaug.html http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/mausaug.html http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/CLASSICS/sites/coleman/maus.htm
Media Message (Messianic Massage)	E.g. in Virgil: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/jvsickle/vergref.htm
Fiction	Http://www.germantownacademy.org/academics/MS/8th/romanhis/Forum/1999/SamH/creative/creativ.html

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