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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... evidence indicates that walls made of tufa were also located in the area of the Capitoline , suggesting further evidence that Rome had expanded its well - defined boundaries . The state ar- chives , or Tabularium , consisted of a ...
... evidence of the archaic city was still in evidence on the Palatine and Capitoline in Ovid's own time , and because the emphasis is on Romulus as the war - god Quirinus and Jupiter as the protector of the community . Ovid sets up a ...
... evidence and histori- cal traditions that account for the emergence of Remus ' story around 296 BC . 68. Williams ( 2003 , 218 and 232-3 ) points out that Romulus is recognized as the inventor of laws and as a peacemaker in the Aeneid ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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