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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... founder Evander and the founder Romulus . Al- though there are at least sixty known literary versions of Rome's foundations , * Romulus is most readily identified with Rome's archaic origins on the Palatine as the city's founder ...
... founder of a renewed Rome who was responsible for the restoration of the res publica and preservation of the city . Memories of Rome's origins were not the only elements that empow- ered the community of Augustan Rome to develop a new ...
... Founding Rome in Roman poetry via the Golden Age The poets recall the foundation story and employ the proto - founder and founder figures as characters in their poems in order to consider some of the fundamental questions raised by ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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