Augustus and the destruction of history : the politics of the past in early imperial Rome / edited by Ingo Gildenhard, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener and Louise Hodgson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-341) and indexes.

Introduction. Attending to the past : on the politics of time in ancient Rome / Ingo Gildenhard, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener and Louise Hodgson -- A. (One possible) order out of chaos -- 1. Libera Res Publica : the road not taken / Louise Hodgson -- 2. History wars : who avenged Caesar and why does it matter? / Kathryn Welch -- B. Augustan plots -- 3. Rupture and repair : patterning time in discourse and practice (from Sallust to Augustus and beyond) / Benjamin Biesinger -- 4. The succession of empires and the Augustan Res Publica / Ulrich Gotter -- 5. Augustus and the end of "triumphalist history" / Wolfgang Havener -- C. The histories of empowered subalterns 6. Family history in Augustan Rome / Josiah Osgood -- 7. The Augustan senate and the reconfiguration of time on the Fasti Capitolini / Amy Russell -- D. Historical palimpsests -- 8. Flooding the Roman forum / Hannah Price -- 9. Dust in the wind : late republican history in the Aeneid / Dusan Lower -- E. Epilogue -- 10. Trojan plots : conceptions of history in Catullus, Virgil and Tacitus / Johannes Geisthardt and Ingo Gildenhard.