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Definitions of augustan in English

Adjective(1) relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman Emperor Augustus

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(1) The triumphs of the Augustan arts had been the triumphs of an elite, intended primarily for the consumption of an elite.(2) One model can be seen in exhibition catalogues on Italy during the middle Republic, on the relationship between the Republic and the Augustan period, or on late antiquity in the city of Rome.(3) History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England and The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age.(4) Later the personal, sometimes satirical poetry of the Augustan period is full of information on food and dining among the Ôö£┬«lite.(5) There is almost no rhetorical verse of the kind we find in Augustan Latin and later in Renaissance poetry throughout Europe.(6) Ovid's strategic silence is designed for an audience familiar with the contextualization of the Marsyas figure in the Augustan world.(7) Hence by the Augustan period the term murmillo replaced the old term samnis, designating a people south of Rome who had long since been subjugated by the Romans and absorbed into their culture.(8) By the end of Constantine's rule, all of the Augustan foundations of the Empire had changed profoundly.(9) The Neapolitan coastal resort of Baiae was favoured by rich Romans in Augustan times, although their marble villas were later overturned by an earthquake.(10) The excavated area open to the public covers the forum, dated to the Augustan period.(11) The first part has five essays on various aspects of Dryden's works: theatrical imagination, satire, ├ö├ç├┐imperial imagination├ö├ç├û, Augustan culture and Dryden's role in creating it, and his mastery of triplets.(12) The writers of formal odes, Marvell and Dryden in particular, are also indebted to him and the critical writings of Dryden and the Augustans plainly reveal the influence of his Ars Poetica.(13) Although several literary sources for the sacrifice of Aeneas belong to the Augustan period, the story was well known at least from the late Republic.(14) Darwin is a transitional figure between neo-classicism and Romanticism, breaking through ├ö├ç├┐the invisible barrier between the Augustans and the Romantics.(15) Samuel Johnson, however, found that he could not compile the kind of dictionary hoped for, and with the independence of the US a resistance to Augustan norms developed outside Britain.(16) The Forum Augusti and the Ara Pacis, however, are different monuments with different purposes; it would be simplistic to expect that all Augustan buildings repeat the same message.

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