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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... Romulus ' lowly beginnings . The hut of Romulus , for example , was adopted as an Augustan symbol : the simple , rustic house was a sign of Rome's modest , yet noble , origins . Romulus ' virtu- ous lifestyle was now compared to ...
... Romulus ' hut can be seen as creating an ' ideal reality ' which restored the hut of Romulus to such a pristine state that an observer could almost imagine that the legendary founder was about to step out of it at any moment . The ...
... hut of Romulus Cicero citation of Varro's Antiquities , 22 on dangers of civil war , 52-3 dream of Octavian , 56-7 on housing and moral character , 26-7 on interrelation of memory and history , 8 civil war , 104-5 Cicero on dangers of ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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