Augustus'letters

Abstract

“Augustan literature” is a label that usually brings uncritically all texts corresponding to the period ranging between Caesar’s death in 44 BD and Augustus’ death in 14 AD. This paper intends to revise that approach which overlooks the cultural and political changes produced by the progressive establishment   of the autocratic regime. We focus on Augustus as object of this production, i.e. as a theme, and as its subject, i.e. as reader, mentor and author, paying attention to the three periods proposed by Millar for the relationship between Augustus and literature.