A STUDY OF THE POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS

本课题的研究对象是罗马第一位皇帝奥古斯都时代的政治和社会。课题组组长南川教授首先对奥古斯都帝国的研究进行了梳理，发现欧洲学者对奥古斯都时代的政治和社会研究非常活跃，在80年代就有很多著作和论文问世。他还认为这一活动是由最伟大的专家罗纳德赛姆先生的论文集的出版和赛姆先生诞辰80周年所推动的。南川教授认为，除了人学之外，学者们还必须寻找新的方法，罗纳德赛姆先生充分利用了人学。通过对历史资料的分析，他得出结论，将奥古斯都对元老院秩序的重组解释为一种灵活的措施是合适的;奥古斯都的目的并不是要建立一个排他性的秩序。

The aim of this project was to study the politics and society in the age of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus.At first the head investigator, Prof.Minamikawa tried to survey the studies on the Augustan Empire and found that the European scholars studied the politics and society in the Augustan period actively and wrote many books and papers in 1980s. He also presumed that this activity was promoted by the publication of the collected papers of the greatest expert, Sir Ronald Syme and the 80th anniversary of his birth.Prof. Minamikawa suggested that it was very important for scholars to find new method except prosopography which Sir Ronald Syme made full use of.Secondly, he tried to investigate the Augustan politics, especially the reorganization of the ordo senatorius. Analyzing historical sources, he came to the conclusion that it was appropriate to interpretate the Augustan reorganization of the senatorial order as a flexible measure ; Augustus did not aim to make an exclusive order.