Augustus was a master of propaganda who employed Ancient and Hellenized Egypt as a means to legitimize his newly acquired power in Rome after the Battle of Actium. This thesis examines the ways in which Augustus moulded the people, imagery and religion of Egypt to suit his political needs. This was accomplished through an examination of the modified imagery of major Egyptian political figures such as Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra VII. The symbolism of their images was altered to enhance Augustus’ standing in Rome. Augustus’ inspirations were also considered, namely Alexander the Great who became a significant influence for Augustus as was evident through the various similarities in their seal rings, family history, and the nature of both their roles as ‘restorers’ and ‘saviours’. The most predominant source for evidence of Augustus’ use of Egypt was found in his transportation of monumental obelisks from Egypt into the Circus Maximus and the Campus Martius. These monuments served to beautify the city while justifying Augustus’ authority in Rome. A close second to the transportation of the monumental architecture of Egypt was Augustus’ representation of the Battle of Actium upon his coinage. The battle was depicted typically with a tethered crocodile, stalks of wheat, a lituus, and a bareheaded Augustus. These actions augmented the prestige of Rome and presented Augustus as a powerful and reliable leader. In terms of religion, Augustus welcomed the practice of Egyptian cults while protecting the physical presence of Rome’s traditional religious core, the pomerium. This appealed to worshippers of both traditional and foreign cults and further enhanced his favour in Rome. Ultimately, Augustus’ actions served to increase his own prestige and credibility. This allowed Augustus to legitimize the authority of his rule and to initiate the beginnings of a stable Roman empire that would endure through Tiberius’ reign and those to follow.

Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / Foreword and "Stellingen" in Dutch. "Stellingen": 2 l. laid in. Bibliography: p. [103]-106.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Classical Studies, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 3, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1118. Adviser: Eleanor Leach.

Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / Foreword and "Stellingen" in Dutch. "Stellingen": 2 l. laid in. Bibliography: p. [103]-106.

Reform of state administration during the reign of Augustus Roman law reflected in non-legal antic relics Abstract The period of the late republic and the early principate was a time of many political, social and legal changes in the history of the ancient Roman state. In a relatively short period of time, the old state institutes collapsed and were fundamentally reformed or replaced with new ones. This thesis mainly focuses on the issue of reforms in selected areas of public law, namely the areas of state administration, tax administration and financial administration. In the field of state administration, the attention is paid to the reform of the provincial order, which had to be adapted to the new constitutional order of the state in which the princeps dominated, and the beginnings of the centralized offices of the Roman Empire, which were founded by Augustus, and which, under the rule of his successors, were further formalized and expanded into highly specialized bureaucratic bodies. In the field of tax administration, attention is paid both to the difficulties of the tax system of the late republic and its comparison with the tax system of Augustus' principate, while attention is paid both to tax collection and individual newly introduced taxes in their relation to new needs of the reformed financial...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 2008. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-189). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NemoneSP.pdf: 2195633 bytes, checksum: 81bf986e588585a5cb124b242453ce2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-15 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / This work aims to analyze the concept of "paradox" posed in the work of The Budget Paradox (1872) of mathematical and logical English Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871). Here it is important to note that a large part of this book consists of re-prints of a series of writings by the author in journal Athenaeum, where its performance as auditor of literature. The tests refer to some scientific work produced between the years 1489 and 1866 and the rules of selection for the composition of the work is, basically, the methodological aspects used in the completion or disclosed by such scholars. The concept of paradox is presented in two distinct moments. At first, we found a study of definitions for the term in a philosophical approach, characterizing it as something that requires further investigation; which was complemented with the classic examples of a scientific context. In the second, we present a concept advocated by De Morgan and, under this perspective, that he conceptualized the "paradox" is directly related to the non-usual methods employed in the formulation of new scientific theories. In this study some of these scientific concepts are detailed, where, through the redemption history, engaging in issues of our study Mathematics, Physics, of Logic, among others. Possession of the preliminary analysis and comparison with the design of De Morgan, it became possible to diagnose some limitations in the conceptualization suggested by the author. Further, evidenced, in front of the cases, the nonlinearity of the process of production of knowledge and hence the progress of science / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo fazer uma an?lise do conceito de paradoxo suscitado na obra A Budget of Paradoxes (1872) do matem?tico e l?gico ingl?s Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871). Neste aspecto ? importante salientar que uma grande parte deste livro consiste de re-impress?es de uma s?rie de escritos do autor no peri?dico cient?fico Athenaeum, quando de sua atua??o como revisor bibliogr?fico. Os ensaios se referem a alguns trabalhos cient?ficos produzidos entre os anos de 1489 e 1866 cujo crit?rio de sele??o para a composi??o da referida obra reside, basicamente, no aspecto metodol?gico adotado ou ainda na conclus?o divulgada por tais estudiosos. A conceitua??o de paradoxo ? apresentada em dois momentos distintos. No primeiro momento, promovemos um estudo das defini??es encontradas para o termo segundo um enfoque filos?fico, caracterizando-o como algo que exige investiga??o adicional; ao que foi complementado com exemplos cl?ssicos do contexto cient?fico. No segundo, apresentamos a conceitua??o defendida por De Morgan e, sob essa perspectiva, o que ele conceitua paradoxo est? diretamente relacionado ?s metodologias n?o-usuais empregadas na formula??o de novas teorias cient?ficas. Neste estudo algumas dessas concep??es cient?ficas s?o pormenorizadas, onde, atrav?s do resgate hist?rico, embrenhamos nosso estudo em quest?es da Matem?tica, da F?sica, da L?gica, entre outras. De posse da an?lise preliminar e em confronta??o com a concep??o de De Morgan, tornou-se poss?vel diagnosticar algumas limita??es na conceitua??o sugerida pelo autor. Por outro lado, evidenciamos, diante dos casos apresentados, a n?o-linearidade do processo de produ??o do conhecimento e, consequentemente, do progresso da ci?ncia

The goal of this thesis is to summarize and describe August's accession to power and his legal reform in the spheres of the administration of the empire, financial administration, military, justiciary and family law. It is fascinating how one man during the period of his government managed to change all the political arrangements of the most powerful empire in the world in such a way that determined its direction and the development of the constitutional system for centuries ahead. The truth is, there was enough time for that. If August's government counts from the Battle of Actia, it took 45 years. No other emperor ruled the Roman Empire longer than him. This brought him the possibility to carry out all the reforms individually and gradually and he was very careful so that all his actions would make the appearance of continuity with the old republican system, and could not therefore be accompanied by any revolt by his contemporaries, although from the present perspective, these reforms in their totality were revolutionary indeed. However, we can also say that, with exceptions, such as the strong opposition of the population with his laws on family relations, these changes have been accepted peacefully. Indeed, this was also given by the fact that the company was already tired of a period of constant unrest...

This dissertation explores interchanges and connections between Rome and Egypt that occurred during the four decades immediately following Egypt’s annexation into the Roman Empire in 30 B.C.E. The dissertation focuses on five temple precincts that were expanded under the first Roman emperor, Augustus (27 B.C.E.–14 C.E.), who as new ruler of Egypt, continued the venerable practice of building cult temples. In order to gauge the level of imperial support and analyze how local and imperial precedents were combined at temple sites, the dissertation compares the built space at sacred sites in three regions. The comparison reveals programmatic emphasis on areas where public worship occurred over inaccessible areas reserved for the gods, and that the combination of local and imperial elements strengthened cultic connections to each region’s center. Five chapters demonstrate temples in the Augustan period were created to encourage continued public use and worship by forming space where public veneration could be carried out, and by integrating pharaonic and imperial elements appropriate for the temple precincts’ transcultural local and visiting audience. This analysis indicates that temples in Augustan Egypt, like those in other areas of the Roman world, were tied to the existing traditions of the local community, engaged with new imperial elements, and were designed to encourage public involvement and continued use. Through encouragement by Augustus and his advisors, religion and culture mediated change as Egypt was annexed as a Roman province.