Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus
Author | : Anthony John Woodman |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1984-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521245531 |
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Author | : Anthony John Woodman |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1984-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521245531 |
Author | : Joseph Farrell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2013-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199587221 |
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Author | : Bobby Xinyue |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780191946288 |
This book offers a new interpretation of one of most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.
Author | : Bobby Xinyue |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Latin poetry |
ISBN | : 0192855972 |
Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.
Author | : P.J. Davis |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006-10-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Deals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature - the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. This work reads Ovid's early works against their political context, and argues that they challenge the Augustan regime's ideology and resist the Augustan conception of what it was to be Roman.
Author | : Thomas N. Habinek |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2001-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400822513 |
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Seneca. He shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century b.c. to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect, for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority, such as patriarchy, religious ritual, cultural identity, and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny, or existimatio. Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures, aloof from mundane political concerns--a view, he shows, that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing.
Author | : Dunstan Lowe |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-04-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472119516 |
An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies
Author | : Nandini B. Pandey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108422659 |
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author | : Anton Powell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : 9781472540058 |
"The political aspects of Augustan poetry have attracted much academic interest. The aim of this study is to take account of the effects of Augustan propaganda not only on the work of contemporary Roman writers, but also on the critical tradition itself. The six essays presented in this volume explore the political themes in the work of major poets such as Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Propertius. Using traditional as well as post-structuralist approaches, the essays examine the controversies of the Civil Wars, the emerging issues of treason and free speech and changing representations of Cleopatra and female power."--Bloomsbury Publishing.