1. Best of emperors or subtle tyrant? Augustus the ambivalent Penelope J. Goodman; 2. The last days of Augustus Alison E. Cooley; 3. Seneca's Augustus: (re)calibrating the imperial model for a young prince Steven J. Green; 4. Embodying the Augustan in Suetonius and beyond Patrick Cook; 5. The first emperor? Augustus and Julius Caesar as rival founders of the principate Joseph Geiger; 6. Julian Augustus on Augustus: Octavian in the Caesars Shaun Tougher; 7. Augustus: the harbinger of peace. Orosius' reception of Augustus in Historiae Adversus Paganos Michael C. Sloan; 8. The Byzantine Augustus: the reception of the first Roman emperor in the Byzantine tradition Kosta Simi¿; 9. Augustus and the Carolingians Jürgen Strothmann; 10. Augustus as visionary: the legend of the Augustan altar in S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome Kerry Boeye and Nandini B. Pandey; 11. From peacemaker to tyrant: the changing image of Augustus in Italian Renaissance political thought Robert Black; 12. Augustus in Morisot's 'Book 8' of the Fasti Bobby Xinyue; 13. The proconsul and the emperor: John Buchan's Augustus James T. Chlup; 14. In search of a new princeps: Günther Birkenfeld and his Augustus novels, 1934-1984 Martin Lindner; 15. Augustus in the rhetorical tradition Kathleen S. Lamp; 16. The Parthian arch of Augustus and its legacy: memory manipulation in imperial Rome and modern scholarship Maggie L. Popkin; 17. Life through a lens: Augustus and the politics of the past in television documentaries today Fiona Hobden; 18. Augusto reframed: exhibiting Augustus in bimillennial Rome Anna Clareborn; 19. Small bandwidth: Augustus' (non)reception in America and its context Karl Galinsky.