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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... role of poetry in society and its power over the minds of its readers . The Hellenistic aesthetic norm prized small - scale poetry that lacked preten- sions to moral authority . Such a norm fit well into the Hellenistic philo- sophical ...
... role of some poetic genres as authorita- tive and instructional and showed that this traditional role of poetry could be used in the service of the dissemination of Epicurean ideas.16 Lucretius compared his use of poetry in his project ...
... role Carthage plays in the Aeneid . Be that as it I do not think that , given the prominent role Carthage plays in other significant parts of the poem , it is possible to claim that its absence on the shield or in Jupiter's prophecy ...
Contents
The Aeneid and Roman Identity | 11 |
Poetry Power and the Emotions | 33 |
The Gaze | 53 |
Copyright | |
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