The question of remembering as well as an inquiry into the ideas appearing in historiography play important roles in the history of Antiquity. A comparative (or separate) analysis of sources dealing with (or portraying) the origins and the past of a Greek polis or Rome, or units smaller or bigger than a city, makes an opportunity for understanding the Greek and Roman historians' way of thinking and culture.

The study of the interrelations between religion and politics is an important site in the inquiry into the Roman history. The history of (the change in) the interpretations about the cults of the Roman gods and their forms is embedded in the history of politics; the political activity, in turn, is inseparable from certain religious forms and ideas. A research relying on both approaches at the same time, can produce results for the history of religion and the history of politics alike.

The Roman auctors and the works by Greek authors dealing with Rome's history as well as the evidence in inscriptions provide an extremely rich material for studying this theme. Besides inquiring into the Roman "value concepts" or into the behavioural standards regulating the relationships between the politival elite and common people, the analysis of the political conflicts should play an important part.

The Augustan Age is one of the periods in Roman history that have the largest and the most complex sources. The civil wars at the end of the 40's and in the 30's offer a great number of themes to elaborate, just as the years when the principate was evolving – regarding both politics and society and culture, etc.