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Informationen zum Autor Steven J. Green is currently Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He specializes in Roman literature and culture in first centuries BC and AD, with particular attention to the Augustan and Neronian periods. He is author of Ovid, Fasti 1: A Commentary (2004) and co-editor of The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris (OUP 2007) and Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica (OUP 2011), and has written several articles focused around Roman poetry (especially Ovid) and the interaction between Roman literature and religious experience. Klappentext This volume looks at the complex employment and treatment of astrology during the period of Octavian/Augustus by both the emperor himself, and by Roman writers of the time. Zusammenfassung This volume looks at the complex employment and treatment of astrology during the period of Octavian/Augustus by both the emperor himself, and by Roman writers of the time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Introduction Part 1: Manilius' Astronomica 2.: Manilius Astronomica: A Lesson in Horoscopic Obscurity Part 2: The Rise of Roman Astrology and Caesars Comet 3.: The Rise of Astrology in Rome 4.: The Beginning and End of the Late-Republican Astrological Debate: The Politicized Philosophical Posturings of Cicero Part 3: Astrology for the Augustan Age 5.: To Have and to Hold: Astrology for an Imperial Age 6.: Setting Gentlemanly Limits for Imperial Stellar Investigation in VitruviusDe Architectura 7.: Concession, Abstinence and Abortion: Horace, Virgil, Hyginus and Ovid 8.: Stars and Storms: The Development of Stellar Causation in Astrometeorology 9.: Caesars Comet: The Reinvigoration of a Religious Enquiry 10.: Turning on the Practitioner: Propertius meets the Charlatan 11.: Conclusion: Manilian Dialogues and the Relaxing of Astrological Discretion
