Augustan

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Evidence suggests that at some point during the Augustan period, Kush was a client state of the Roman Empire.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

British critics in the nineteenth century followed suit, celebrating Shakespeare’s capacious characters and poetic imagination instead of worrying whether his plots fit Aristotelian unities or if his style matched Augustan decorum.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2015

There is a bizarre impersonality to these Augustan tomes that see a show at the Grand Palais as more significant than a lover's death.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2010

He is no relation to Bobby Jones, the former Augusta National caddie and employee who moonlighted as a saxophonist for his fellow Augustan James Brown and other R&B luminaries.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2010

Ovid, who lived in the Augustan Age, tells his life in detail and so does Apollodorus, in the first or second century A.D.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton