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Author Augustus: from Republic to Empire (Congress) (2014 : Muzeum im. Emeryka Hutten-Czapskiego, Krakow), creator

Title Augustus : from republic to empire / edited by Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner and Jaroslaw Bodzek
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 164 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 36
Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 36.
Contents Preface; IMP XV/SICIL -- The debate over the Augustus golden quaternion of Pompeii -- Katarzyna Balbuza; Propaganda of victory in iconography on gems from Novae -- Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner; An attempt at identifying the location of the ancient agora in Chersonesus Taurica -- Andrzej B. Biernacki and Elena Klenina; Changes in the urban layout and architecture of the ancient town in Marina el-Alamein at the turn of eras -- Rafał Czerner; The Augustan inspirations for the decoration of the chimney place in the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace in Warsaw. presented to mark the occasion of the University of Warsaw bicentennial -- Piotr Dyczek; Octavian/Augustus's propaganda messages encoded on ancient engraved gems from the Constantine Schmidt-Ciążyński collection -- Paweł Gołyźniak; Capricorn and the star: the astrological symbols of Augustus -- Szymon Jellonek; Between greatness and divinity. Augustus in ancient tradition and medieval legend -- Agata A. Kluczek; Octavian in Egypt. Propaganda and graffiti -- Adam Łukaszewicz; The villa of Livia on the Via Flaminia and its restoration at the bimillenarius of Augustus (2014) -- Marina Piranomonte; Plundered art in the galleries of Augustan Rome -- Tomasz Polański; Residential villas in Italy in the Augustan age: the case-study of the Sabina Tiberina -- Carla Sfameni; Augustus and Cyrenaica -- Jerzy Żelazowski
Summary This volume contains proceedings from the conference 'AUGUSTUS. 23 September 63 BC - 19 August 14 AD - 2000 years of divinity' held in Kakow, 2014. Papers deal with a variety of topics ranging from architecture, urban issues and painting to fine art represented by glyptics and numismatics
Notes Previous edition issued in print: 2018
Conference proceedings
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018)
Subject Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Congresses
SUBJECT Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. fast
Subject Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Congresses
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bakowska-Czerner, Grazyna, editor
Bodzek, Jarosław, editor
Muzeum im. Emeryka Hutten-Czapskiego, host institution.
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784917818
9781784917814