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The lost memoirs of Augustus : and the development of Roman autobiography
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The lost memoirs of Augustus : and the development of Roman autobiography

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"This book arises from a conference held at Baskerville Hall, near Hay-on-Wye in Wales, on 18-19 July 2005" - acknowledgements, p. vii.

Contents

Contents - The Memoirs of Augustus: testimonia and fragments, by Christopher Smith.
Cato the Elder and the origins of Roman autobiography, by Tim Cornell.
Was there an ancient genre of 'autobiography'? Or, did Augustus know what he was doing?, by Christopher Pelling.
Sulla's Memoirs, by Christopher Smith.
Felicitas and the memoirs of Sulla and Augustus, by Alexander Thein.
Augustus, Sulla and the supernatural, by T. P. Wiseman.
Diving a lost text: Augustus' autobiography and the [bios kaisaros] of Nicolaus of Damascus, by Mark Toher.
Cantabrian closure: Augustus' Spanish war and the ending of his memoirs, by John Rich.
Augustus' age of apology: an analysis of the Memoirs and an argument for two further fragments, by Anton Powell.
Alternative memoirs: tales from the 'other side' of the civil war, by Kathryn Welch.

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