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Augustus Deified Or Denigrated: The Political Subtext Of Anchises' Speech In Aeneid Vi, Scott D. Davis
Augustus Deified Or Denigrated: The Political Subtext Of Anchises' Speech In Aeneid Vi, Scott D. Davis
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In 27 B.C., Octavian became Augustus. The chaos of the civil wars had ended and an emperor was at last in Rome. As the princeps states in his Res Gestae, he had obtained all things "per consensum universorum" and upon achieving victory over his enemies, the doors of the temple of Janus were closed, peace was restored and the governance of Rome had ostensibly been returned to the Senate and the Roman people. Then, "quo pro merito," Octavian received the title of Augustus and the doors of his temple were adorned with the corona civica. A gold shield …