CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pater Patriae, Sole Power, Knitting

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

Fasti, continued: february 1: festival for sospita. Augustus doesn"t think ovid is good to come back, and ovid does. Ovid ends the golden age of literature: next people that are writing are in the silver age. By the time he dies, it has been over half a century since he has risen to power and it has been a long time since there was a working republic. Who will succeed augustus: a problem in deciding who will come after him as he has no biological son. Has a daughter, but is born in 39 bc, is only within 8 years of the battle of. Actium, and she is young when he takes power: wants to show that there is going to be a successor. No power vacuum: agrippa, recall: aedile 33 bc. He had taken on restoring water and sewage systems.