The Dreams of Atia and Octavius. A Note about the Relations between Augustus and Egypt In Suetonius ("Divus Augustus", 94, 4-5) and Dio Cassius (45, 1, 2-3) are preserved two versions of a narrative borrowed from a lost book, the "Theolegumena" by Asclepiades of Mendes, narrative introducing Octavius, in the same time, as the son of Apollo, as a replica of Alexander and as an Egyptian Pharaoh. It is probably a text written in Egypt between 30 & 27 ВС, to serve there as an ideological vindication of the roman conquest, but perhaps equally used in Italy by Octavius, ca. 28, for propaganda purposes. The reasons of its writing are compared to the ones having probably inspired Alexander's pilgrimage to Siwa and the elaboration of the narrative...
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For the centuries between Late Antiquity and Humanism, just about the only vehicle transmitting Alex...
This paper proposes a reflection on the construction of the Alexander Romance and its Egyptian “apoc...
Ce travail a pour objectif de rendre compte de l’image d’Auguste dans les textes historiques byzanti...
This project consists of a translation and literary analysis of the Carmen de Bello Actiaco, a fragm...
The Augustan Revival refers to the religious policy of the Emperor Augustus who was responsible for ...
P.Herc. 817 provides us with the remnants of an anonymous and anepigraphic poem about the capture of...
The author’s aim was to present two literary traditions which refer to the way in which the image of...
The study focuses on the Life of Augustus by Suetonius, the most complete literary source on the emp...
n the opinion of Cassius Dio, Septimius Severus’ capture of Nisibis and annexation of the province ...
In this paper I shall describe several iconographic documents attesting the resounding success of a ...
The contribution investigates the references of the ghost of Iulius Caesar in Florus II 16, with the...
After the conquest of Egypt Augustus transformed Egypt into a personal domain, which he managed dire...
Suetonius describes the lives of Caesars according to categories such as antecedents, birth, career,...
The paper compares the literary image of Otho (in Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio) and...
A certain number of recent publications dealing with Roman History of Cassius Dio induce us to re-ex...
For the centuries between Late Antiquity and Humanism, just about the only vehicle transmitting Alex...
This paper proposes a reflection on the construction of the Alexander Romance and its Egyptian “apoc...
Ce travail a pour objectif de rendre compte de l’image d’Auguste dans les textes historiques byzanti...
This project consists of a translation and literary analysis of the Carmen de Bello Actiaco, a fragm...
The Augustan Revival refers to the religious policy of the Emperor Augustus who was responsible for ...