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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... archaic city , which seized the imagination of the poets Vergil , Tibullus , and Propertius . Their inspiration for this recreation of Rome's foundations was the novel city - design of the emperor Augustus , which showcased the restor ...
... archaic past . The multiplicity of perspectives on Rome's legen- dary past , which occurred both in topographical reconstruction of monuments associated with the archaic city and the retelling of the story of the archaic city in the ...
... archaic - Augustan city . Propertius was grounded in the visual culture of Rome and his impressions of the archaic city were also shaped by the way in which Vergil and Tibullus saw the city before him . Propertius does not envision ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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