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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... tragedy , al- beit briefly . The visuality of tragedy , the vividness of its spectacle , was for Aristotle one of the reasons why he considered it the best genre , superior even to epic . He did not just consider the visuality of ...
... tragedy . " E. L. Harrison argues that Venus ' role here should be compared to that of divinities in tragedies such as Euripides ' Hippolytus or Bacchae , where the divinity appears in the prologue and gives an exposition of the events ...
... tragedy.19 This formal similarity in itself supports my contention that Dido is constructed as a spectacle in the narrative . Among the passages most rem- iniscent of tragedy are Dido's dialogues , of which there are only two . The book ...
Contents
The Aeneid and Roman Identity | 11 |
Poetry Power and the Emotions | 33 |
The Gaze | 53 |
Copyright | |
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