Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary DiscourseNow in Paper! As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In this book, author Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated Romans. Syed analyzes Roman pedagogy and reading practices as well as ancient beliefs about the powerful influence of poetry. Her study considers these cultural components together with the aspects of identity that define the Aeneid’s characters. By doing so, Syed shows how Vergil’s ancient audiences saw themselves—their experiences, goals, and values—reflected in the poem and guided by it. In particular, Syed’s treatment of gender and ethnicity brings to light the key role of Vergil’s poem in the formation of Romanness. |
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... defining the self in the Aeneid , the link between gender and ethnicity is a combination of two communal modes of defining iden- tity . Nevertheless , this link , too , implicates the personal mode of defining identity , because ethnic ...
... defining Aeneas . Because gender and ethnicity are intertwined in these figures , Aeneas ' masculinity in jux ... defines Aeneas as Roman in the domain of Rome's empire . Lavinia , whose Latinness is inscribed in her and her father's ...
... defining themselves as Roman finds no direct counterpart among the Greeks precisely beause the Greeks were the ones from whom the Romans wanted to differentiate themselves . Both Greeks and Romans saw Greek identity as culturally ...
Contents
The Aeneid and Roman Identity | 11 |
Poetry Power and the Emotions | 33 |
The Gaze | 53 |
Copyright | |
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