A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

Contents

COnTEnTs List of Illustrations ix Series Editor’s Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: A City of Brick 1 1 Augustus’s Rhetorical Situation 10 2 Seeing Rhetorical Theory 24 3 The Augustan Political Myth 38 4 Let Us Now Praise Great Men 58 5 Coins, Material Rhetoric, and Circulation 80 6 The Augustan Political Myth in Vernacular Art 109 7 (Freed)men and Monkeys 131 Conclusion: A New Narrative 148 Notes 157 Bibliography 179 Index 185 ...