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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... emperor's house , was named ' Pala- tium ' not because that was its given name , but because the emperor himself lived on the Palatine and installed his military headquarters there , and his house took on a certain measure of repute ...
... emperor conveyed his authority at the start of his reign.52 Both of these passages from the Res Gestae are of ... emperor also created a link between himself , Jupiter , and Romulus that generated a sense of the emperor as the guarantor ...
... emperor's directive to improve the city provides insight into how a change within a landscape can modify an existing pattern of thinking or behaviour , or create new ways of viewing a landscape . The shrines to the Lares Compitales were ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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