id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cv43nv95z9q Elisabetta Drudi The Golden Age and Roman Imperial Autocracy: The Power of Myth-Making in Creating Political Consensus 1904 .txt text/plain 199 5 23 The ideological association of the Golden Age with autocratic power did not emerge as a monolithic cultural program as soon as the first emperor Augustus established the Principate; it was the product of a progressive appropriation of the traditional constituents of the myth – peace, prosperity, justice, equity, social equality, harmony of men and nature, guaranteed by the rule of the god Saturn – in literary and material culture, which over time created a symbolism that immediately identified the imperial regime. The chronological trajectory of the myth which this project examines reveals how the rhetoric of the Golden Age came to be a cultural discourse in Roman society, which eventually substantiated imperial ideology. cache/cv43nv95z9q.txt txt/cv43nv95z9q.txt