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College of Arts & Sciences
Jonathan Scott Perry Research
Building on the findings of my first book, my second book will sketch out the parameters of scholarly opinion on the figure of Augustus just prior to the appearance of Sir Ronald Syme’s The Roman Revolution in 1939. My intent is to place Syme’s work against the backdrop of contemporaneous thought on this crucial topic, examining the international consensus of scholars when Augustus’ imperial rule seemed to be replicating itself in Europe in real time. Building on the considerable body of data I have gathered on the Fascist period, I am devoting two chapters to commentary on Augustus in Fascist Italy and its refashioning for the ‘Mostra Augustea della Romanità’ of 1937/8, and I am completing further chapters on Augustus in Nazi Germany (particularly through the work of Ernst Kornemann) and on the Caesars according to Jérôme Carcopino, director of the École française and subsequent Minister of Education in Vichy France. At present I am writing a chapter on John Buchan, the novelist and amateur historian who, while serving as Governor-General of Canada (1935-1940), published a biography of Augustus in 1937.
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