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Special Episode – An Interview with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge The Partial Historians

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We had the very great pleasure to sit down with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge to discuss his latest publication The Failure of Augustus: Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox (2019).







Special Episode - An Interview with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge







Judge has a long-reaching career, accepting his first junior lectureship in the 1950s and going on accept the inaugural History Chair at Macquarie University in Sydney. Dr G and Dr Rad met as undergraduate students at Macquarie so it is our extraordinary pleasure to sit down with Judge and have the chance to chat.















Dr G (left) holding Cooley's Res Gestae, Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge (centre), and Dr Rad (right) holding Judge's The Failure of Augustus







In this far reaching

conversation we learn about Judge's evolving thoughts on Augustus

over the course of his academic career, some of the salient

connections between Augustus and Tiberius that emerge from

considering Augustus' aims, the content of the Res Gestae

Divi Augusti, and consideration

of Augustus in terms of failure.









Things to look forward to:







*

A

consideration of the importance of understanding time as a means of

approaching historical interpretation

*

The

challenges that Tiberius faces in the wake of Augustus' death

*

The

importance of the Res Gestae as a lens to Augustus' life and

career

*

Key materials

for approaching the subject of Augustus' failure.

















The cursus honorem of Augustus, as visualised by Edwin Judge. Used with permission of the author. This table appears on the cover of The Failure of Augustus and page 8 of the collection.







Reading

recommendations







Cooley, Alison E. 2009. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Text, Translation and Commentary







Judge, E. A. 2019. The Failure of Augustus: Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox







Lintott, Andrew W. 1999. Violence in Republican Rome







Ridley, Ronald T. 2003. The emperor's retrospect: Augustus' Res gestae in epigraphy, historiography and commentary







Final credits: Excerpt from ‘Ancient Arcadian Harp’ by Cormi

We had the very great pleasure to sit down with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge to discuss his latest publication The Failure of Augustus: Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox (2019).







Special Episode - An Interview with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge







Judge has a long-reaching career, accepting his first junior lectureship in the 1950s and going on accept the inaugural History Chair at Macquarie University in Sydney. Dr G and Dr Rad met as undergraduate students at Macquarie so it is our extraordinary pleasure to sit down with Judge and have the chance to chat.















Dr G (left) holding Cooley's Res Gestae, Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge (centre), and Dr Rad (right) holding Judge's The Failure of Augustus







In this far reaching

conversation we learn about Judge's evolving thoughts on Augustus

over the course of his academic career, some of the salient

connections between Augustus and Tiberius that emerge from

considering Augustus' aims, the content of the Res Gestae

Divi Augusti, and consideration

of Augustus in terms of failure.









Things to look forward to:







*

A

consideration of the importance of understanding time as a means of

approaching historical interpretation

*

The

challenges that Tiberius faces in the wake of Augustus' death

*

The

importance of the Res Gestae as a lens to Augustus' life and

career

*

Key materials

for approaching the subject of Augustus' failure.

















The cursus honorem of Augustus, as visualised by Edwin Judge. Used with permission of the author. This table appears on the cover of The Failure of Augustus and page 8 of the collection.







Reading

recommendations







Cooley, Alison E. 2009. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Text, Translation and Commentary







Judge, E. A. 2019. The Failure of Augustus: Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox







Lintott, Andrew W. 1999. Violence in Republican Rome







Ridley, Ronald T. 2003. The emperor's retrospect: Augustus' Res gestae in epigraphy, historiography and commentary







Final credits: Excerpt from ‘Ancient Arcadian Harp’ by Cormi

1 hr 6 min

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