Augustus through the Ages Receptions, Readings and Appropriations of the Historical Figure of the First Roman Emperor

Cavalieri, Marco;et.al.
(2022) Augustus through the Ages Receptions, Readings and Appropriations of the Historical Figure of the First Roman Emperor — ISBN: [978-90-429-4962-1], p. 3-31, published

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As everybody knows, the bimillenary of Augustus’ death on the 19th of August 14 AD in Nola was commemorated in 2014 all around the world with conferences, exhibitions and publications. 1 Many scholars already have contributed with books and papers to this spectacular profusion of publications and scientific events about Augustus in 2014. Let us mention one of the most remarkable of these cultural and scientific events: the exhibition which took place first in Rome, then in Paris, and which was entitled ‘Augusto’ (devised by Eugenio La Rocca), or ‘Moi, Auguste, empereur de Rome…’. In the catalogue of this exhibition, the very beginning of the introduction consists of a reference to another ‘Augustan exhibition’ organised in Rome: the Mostra Augustea della Romanità of 1937-38, which commemorated another Augustan bimillenary – the bimillenary of the birth of the first emperor. It is well known that this Mostra Augustea, which was visited by hundreds of thousands of people, was designed as a display for the Fascist regime and his leader, the ‘Duce’. So, commemorating Augustus in 2014 inevitably implied to think about the distance between the commemoration of the Thirties and the present one. What did the figure of Augustus mean in the context of the Fascist Rome? And what does it mean in the present world? More generally speaking, the year 2014 strongly invited to examine the evolution of the perception of Augustus through the ages.
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Cavalieri, M., & et al. (2022). Augustus through the Ages Receptions, Readings and Appropriations of the Historical Figure of the First Roman Emperor. In M. Cavalieri, P. Assenmaker, M. Cavagna, D. Engels (ed.), Augustus through the Ages Receptions, Readings and Appropriations of the Historical Figure of the First Roman Emperor (Collection Latomus 366, p. p. 3-31). Peeters Publisher.