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searchaux" style="display:none">Period in Latin literature</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GiorcesBardo42.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/GiorcesBardo42.jpg/250px-GiorcesBardo42.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/GiorcesBardo42.jpg/375px-GiorcesBardo42.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/GiorcesBardo42.jpg/500px-GiorcesBardo42.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1202" data-file-height="1120" /></a><figcaption>The Augustan poet <a href="/wiki/Vergil" class="mw-redirect" title="Vergil">Vergil</a> in a 3rd-century <a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> also depicting the <a href="/wiki/Muses" title="Muses">Muses</a> <a href="/wiki/Clio" title="Clio">Clio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Melpomene" title="Melpomene">Melpomene</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Augustan literature</b> is a period of <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a> written during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> (27 BC–AD 14), the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Roman emperor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Literary_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary history">literary histories</a> of the first part of the 20th century and earlier, Augustan literature was regarded along with that of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic#End_of_the_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Late Republic</a> as constituting the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Latin_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Age of Latin literature">Golden Age of Latin literature</a>, a period of stylistic <a href="/wiki/Classicism" title="Classicism">classicism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most of the literature <a href="/wiki/Periodization" title="Periodization">periodized</a> as "Augustan" was in fact written by men—<a href="/wiki/Vergil" class="mw-redirect" title="Vergil">Vergil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a>—whose careers were established during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Triumvirate" title="Second Triumvirate">triumviral</a> years, before Octavian assumed the title <i><a href="/wiki/Augustus_(honorific)" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustus (honorific)">Augustus</a></i>. Strictly speaking, <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> is the poet whose work is most thoroughly embedded in the Augustan regime.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Impact_and_style">Impact and style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Impact and style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Augustan literature produced the most widely read, influential, and enduring of Rome's poets. The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Republican</a> poets <a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a> are their immediate predecessors; <a href="/wiki/Lucan" title="Lucan">Lucan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a> are their so-called "Silver Age" heirs. Although Vergil has sometimes been considered a "court poet", his <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>, the most important of the Latin <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epics</a>, also permits complex readings on the source and meaning of Rome's power and the responsibilities of a good leader.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ovid's works were wildly popular, but the poet was exiled by Augustus in one of literary history's great mysteries; <i>carmen et error</i> ("a poem" or "poetry" and "a mistake") is Ovid's own oblique explanation. Among prose works, the <a href="/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita_libri_(Livy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ab urbe condita libri (Livy)">monumental history</a> of <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a> is preeminent for both its scope and stylistic achievement. The multi-volume work <i><a href="/wiki/De_architectura" title="De architectura">De architectura</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> also remains of great informational interest.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Questions pertaining to <a href="/wiki/Tone_(literature)" title="Tone (literature)">tone</a>, or the writer's attitude toward his subject matter, are acute among the preoccupations of scholars who study the period. In particular, Augustan works are analyzed in an effort to understand the extent to which they advance, support, criticize or undermine social and political attitudes promulgated by the regime, official forms of which were often expressed in aesthetic media.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Augustan_writers">List of Augustan writers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: List of Augustan writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Publius Vergilius Maro</a> (Virgil, spelled also as Vergil) (70 – 19 BC),</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Quintus Horatius Flaccus</a> (Horace) (65 – 8 BC), known for lyric poetry and satires</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sextus_Propertius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextus Propertius">Sextus Aurelius Propertius</a> (50 – 15 BC), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albius_Tibullus" class="mw-redirect" title="Albius Tibullus">Albius Tibullus</a> (54 – 19 BC), elegiac poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Titus Livius</a> (Livy) (64 BC – 12 AD), historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Publius_Ovidius_Naso" class="mw-redirect" title="Publius Ovidius Naso">Publius Ovidius Naso</a> (Ovid) (43 BC – 18 AD), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grattius_Faliscus" class="mw-redirect" title="Grattius Faliscus">Grattius Faliscus</a> (a contemporary of Ovid), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Manilius" title="Marcus Manilius">Marcus Manilius</a> (1st century BC & AD), astrologer, poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Gaius Julius Hyginus</a> (64 BC – 17 AD), librarian, poet, mythographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Verrius_Flaccus" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcus Verrius Flaccus">Marcus Verrius Flaccus</a> (55 BC – 20 AD), grammarian, philologist, calendarist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Marcus Vitruvius Pollio</a> (80 70 BC – after 15 BC), engineer, architect</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Antistius_Labeo" title="Marcus Antistius Labeo">Marcus Antistius Labeo</a> (d. 10 or 11 AD), jurist, philologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Cestius_Pius" title="Lucius Cestius Pius">Lucius Cestius Pius</a> (1st century BC & AD), Latin educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Pompeius_Trogus" title="Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus">Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus</a> (1st century BC), historian, naturalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Porcius_Latro" title="Marcus Porcius Latro">Marcus Porcius Latro</a> (1st century BC), rhetorician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Valgius_Rufus" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaius Valgius Rufus">Gaius Valgius Rufus</a> (consul 12 BC), poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sulpicia" title="Sulpicia">Sulpicia</a>, elegiac poet</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> held the office of <i><a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a></i> in perpetuity; technically, the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Roman_Republic" title="Constitution of the Roman Republic">constitution of the Roman Republic</a> was still in effect during Caesar's relatively short time in power. His heir Augustus styled himself <i><a href="/wiki/Princeps" title="Princeps">princeps</a></i>, or "Leading Citizen", but is considered the first of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Imperial</a> monarchs and reigned for more than 40 years. See <a href="/wiki/Roman_Emperor_(Principate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Emperor (Principate)">Roman Emperor (Principate)</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Fergus_Millar" title="Fergus Millar">Fergus Millar</a>, "Ovid and the Domus Augusta: Rome Seen from Tomoi," <i>Journal of Roman Studies</i> 83 (1993), p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto1-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joseph Farrell, "The Augustan Period: 40 BC–AD 14," in <i>A Companion to Latin Literature</i> (Blackwell, 2005), pp. 44–57.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Christopher Pelling, "The Triumviral Period," in <i>The Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.–A.D. 69</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 73 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JZLW4-wba7UC&dq=%22Augustan+literature%22&pg=PA73">online.</a> See also Farrell, "The Augustan Period."</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHelmke2023" class="citation book cs1">Helmke, Tim (2023). <i>Exemplarisches Krisenwissen: Gender in Narrativ Und Narration Des Fruhen Prinzipats</i>. 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href="/wiki/Porticus_of_Livia" title="Porticus of Livia">Porticus of Livia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macellum_Liviae" title="Macellum Liviae">Macellum Liviae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Palatine_Apollo" title="Library of Palatine Apollo">Library of Palatine Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Marcellus" title="Theatre of Marcellus">Theatre of Marcellus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Agora" title="Roman Agora">Roman Agora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropaeum_Alpium" title="Tropaeum Alpium">Tropaeum Alpium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesareum_of_Alexandria" title="Caesareum of Alexandria">Caesareum of Alexandria</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Palaces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Augustus" title="House of Augustus">House of Augustus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardens_of_Maecenas" title="Gardens of Maecenas">Gardens of Maecenas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palazzo_a_Mare" title="Palazzo a Mare">Palazzo a Mare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villa_Giulia_(Ventotene)" title="Villa Giulia (Ventotene)">Villa Giulia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villa_of_Augustus" title="Villa of Augustus">Villa of Augustus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religious structures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ara_Pacis" title="Ara Pacis">Ara Pacis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome" title="Pantheon, Rome">Pantheon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_Neptune" title="Basilica of Neptune">Basilica of Neptune</a></li> <li>Temples <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Caesar" title="Temple of Caesar">Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_Palatinus" title="Temple of Apollo Palatinus">Apollo Palatinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_Sosianus" title="Temple of Apollo Sosianus">Apollo Sosianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Mars_Ultor" title="Temple of Mars Ultor">Mars Ultor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Castor_and_Pollux" title="Temple of Castor and Pollux">Castor and Pollux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Augustus,_Pula" title="Temple of Augustus, Pula">Augustus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Rome_and_Augustus" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Rome and Augustus">Rome and Augustus</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Aqueduct_(water_supply)" title="Aqueduct (water supply)">Aqueducts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aqua_Virgo" title="Aqua Virgo">Aqua Virgo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqua_Alsietina" title="Aqua Alsietina">Aqua Alsietina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqua_Julia" title="Aqua Julia">Aqua Julia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roman_roads" title="Roman roads">Roads</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milliarium_Aureum" title="Milliarium Aureum">Milliarium Aureum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Via_Julia_Augusta" title="Via Julia Augusta">Via Julia Augusta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Via_Augusta" title="Via Augusta">Via Augusta</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Archs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arch_of_Augustus_(Aosta)" title="Arch of Augustus (Aosta)">Aosta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arc_de_Ber%C3%A0" title="Arc de Berà">Berà</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arch_of_Augustus_(Fano)" title="Arch of Augustus (Fano)">Fano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_of_Orange" title="Triumphal Arch of Orange">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arch_of_Augustus,_Rome" title="Arch of Augustus, Rome">Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arch_of_Augustus_(Rimini)" title="Arch of Augustus (Rimini)">Rimini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arch_of_Augustus_(Susa)" title="Arch of Augustus (Susa)">Susa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Res_Gestae_Divi_Augusti" title="Res Gestae Divi Augusti"><i>Res Gestae Divi Augusti</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Memoirs_of_Augustus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Memoirs of Augustus 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title="Livia">Livia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scribonia_(wife_of_Octavian)" title="Scribonia (wife of Octavian)">Scribonia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Children</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julia_the_Elder" title="Julia the Elder">Julia</a> (daughter)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Caesar" title="Gaius Caesar">Gaius</a> & <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Caesar" title="Lucius Caesar">Lucius</a> (adopted)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agrippa_Postumus" title="Agrippa Postumus">Agrippa Postumus</a> (adopted)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nero_Claudius_Drusus" title="Nero Claudius Drusus">Nero Drusus</a> (stepson)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a> (adopted)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelia_(stepdaughter_of_Augustus)" title="Cornelia (stepdaughter of Augustus)">Cornelia</a> (stepdaughter)</li></ul> 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