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\\nWe 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).
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\\nSpecial Episode - An Interview with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge
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\\nJudge 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.
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\\nDr G (left) holding Cooley\'s Res Gestae, Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge (centre), and Dr Rad (right) holding Judge\'s The Failure of Augustus
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\\nIn this far reaching
\\nconversation we learn about Judge\'s evolving thoughts on Augustus
\\nover the course of his academic career, some of the salient
\\nconnections between Augustus and Tiberius that emerge from
\\nconsidering Augustus\' aims, the content of the Res Gestae
\\nDivi Augusti, and consideration
\\nof Augustus in terms of failure.
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\\nThings to look forward to:
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\\n\\tconsideration of the importance of understanding time as a means of
\\n\\tapproaching historical interpretation
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\\n\\tchallenges that Tiberius faces in the wake of Augustus\' death
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\\n\\timportance of the Res Gestae as a lens to Augustus\' life and
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\\nKey materials
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\\nThe 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.
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\\nCooley, Alison E. 2009. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Text, Translation and Commentary
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\\nJudge, E. A. 2019. The Failure of Augustus: Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox
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\\nLintott, Andrew W. 1999. Violence in Republican Rome
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\\nRidley, Ronald T. 2003. The emperor\'s retrospect: Augustus\' Res gestae in epigraphy, historiography and commentary
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\\nFinal credits: Excerpt from \\u2018Ancient Arcadian Harp\\u2019 by Cormi
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