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Augustus on Aegina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G. W. Bowersock
Affiliation:
Balliol College, Oxford/Harvard University

Extract

[Plutarch] records that Augustus passed a winter on the island of Aegina, rather than in Athens, as a sign of his wrath toward the Athenians. Paul Graindor assumed that the most likely time for Augustus to have been angry with the Athenians was immediately after Actium, and so he dated [Plutarch]'s anecdote to the winter of 31/30 (Athènes sous Auguste [Cairo, 1927], p. 17). This is impossible.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1964

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