Legendary Rome"Legendary Rome" is the first book to offer a comparative treatment of the reinvention of Rome's origins in the poetry of Vergil, Tibullus and Propertius. It also examines the impact that the changing topography of Rome, as orchestrated by the emperor Augustus, had on those poets' renditions of Rome's legendary past. When the poets explore the significance of Augustus' reconstruction of the Palatine and Capitoline hills, they create new meaning and memories for the story of Rome's legendary foundations. As the tradition of Rome's mythic and legendary origins evolves through each poetic revision, the past transforms and is reinvented anew.The exploration of what constitutes a civilised landscape for each poet leads to significant conclusions about the dynamic and evolving nature of shared public memories. Written when Rome was in the process of defining a new, post-war identity, the poems studied here capture the growing tension between community and individual development, the restoration of peace versus expansion through military means, and stability and change within the city. |
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... Saturn ' guiding the people in gentle peace ' and establishing laws.29 Saturn is a ' culture - hero ' because he tames the indigenous peoples . The narrative also recalls an earlier passage , in which the reign of Augustus reinvents the ...
... Saturn's settlement on the Capitol , hanc Saturnus condidit arcem ( Saturn founded this citadel , ' 8.357 ) . The visit to the Capitoline establishes the proto - urban history of Rome and demonstrates that even before Romulus founded ...
... Saturn , does the arrival of Jupiter's age indicate that the god has rescued humans from a too passive ( albeit ... Saturn's Golden Age appears to save humans from an idle life in which they accomplish nothing and do not improve as a ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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