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Augustan Age may refer to

  • the period of Roman history when Augustus was the first emperor
  • the period of Latin literature associated with the reign of Augustus: see Augustan literature (ancient Rome)
  • the early 18th century in British culture, when writers and other intellectuals admired and emulated the original Augustan Age: see Augustan literature and Augustan poetry

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Augustan Age

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Augustan Age may refer to the period of Roman history when Augustus was the first emperor the period of Latin literature associated with the reign of Augustus:...

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Augustan literature

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with the Augustan period. The new Augustan period exhibited exceptionally bold political writings in all genres, with the satires of the age marked by...

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Augustan prose

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Augustan literature saw a rise in prose writing as high literature. The essay, satire, and dialogue (in philosophy and religion) thrived in the age,...

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Augustan

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literature (ancient Rome) Augustan prose Augustan poetry Augustan Reprint Society Augustan literature Augustan History Augustan drama Augustan Society A current...

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Elegiac couplet

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the revival of Roman culture attempted to recapture the spirit of the Augustan writers. The Dutch Latinist Johannes Secundus, for example, included Catullus-inspired...

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Classical Latin

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Teuffel's Augustan Age is Cruttwell's Augustan Epoch (42 BC – 14 AD). The literary histories list includes all authors from Canonical to the Ciceronian Age—even...

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Latin literature

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years of power from 27 BC to AD 14. This period is sometimes called the Augustan Age of Latin Literature. Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues, the Georgics...

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Augustus

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portraiture. He first appeared on coins at the age of 19, and from about 29 BC "the explosion in the number of Augustan portraits attests a concerted propaganda...

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Augustan poetry

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In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works...

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Echo and Narcissus

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a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman mythological epic from the Augustan Age. The introduction of the myth of the mountain nymph Echo into the story...

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Seneca the Younger

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Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania...

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Electorate of Saxony

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grandeur and ostentation characterized both his reign and the period. Augustan Dresden continued to develop into the "Florence on the Elbe". The period...

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English literature

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The Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot epitomized the spirit of the age. The term Augustan literature derives from authors of the 1720s and 1730s themselves...

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Cleopatra Selene II

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Cyrenaica (34 BC – 30 BC). She was an important royal woman in the early Augustan age. Cleopatra Selene was the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra...

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British literature

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early 18th century (1689–1750) in English literature is known as the Augustan Age. Writers at this time "greatly admired their Roman counterparts, imitated...

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Nicolaus of Damascus

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Damascenus) was a Greek historian and philosopher who lived during the Augustan age of the Roman Empire. His name is derived from that of his birthplace...

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Lucius Varius Rufus

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Rufus (/ˈvɛəriəs, ˈvær-/; c. 74 – 14 BC) was a Roman poet of the early Augustan age. He was a friend of Virgil, after whose death he and Plotius Tucca prepared...

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Albinovanus Pedo

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called C. Pedo Albinovanus, was a Roman poet who flourished during the Augustan age. Albinovanus Pedo was a member of the gens Albinovana. He wrote a Theseis...

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Marcus Junius Brutus

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Brutus and his compatriots as criminal murderers. Still, during the Augustan age, historians were said to have written about Brutus and the other conspirators...

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Sentimental novel

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beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age. Sentimental novels relied on emotional response, both from their readers...

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Scriblerus Club

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together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures in the Augustan Age of English letters. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan...

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Romantic literature in English

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and prose fiction which began in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age. Sentimental novels relied on emotional response both from their readers...

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Patronage in ancient Rome

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and Audience in the Augustan Age," p. 118. Dillon and Garland, Ancient Rome, p. 87. Quinn, "Poet and Audience in the Augustan Age," p. 116. J.A. Crook...

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Prometheus

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long wings. This same image would also be used later in the Rome of the Augustan age as documented by Furtwangler. In the often cited and highly publicised...

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Kalabhra dynasty

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Kalappalars of Vellalar community, to Kalavar chieftains. This age is generally called "The Augustan age of Tamil Literature", in a 1922 book by the name "Studies...

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Herodian kingdom

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Government Monarchy King   • 37 BC – 4 BC Herod the Great Historical era Augustan Age • conquest of Hasmonean kingdom 37 BC • formation of Tetrarchy 4 BC Currency...

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History of the Roman Empire

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Augustan coinage, has also provided valuable evidence about economic, social and military conditions. Secondary ancient sources on the Augustan Age include...

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