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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... lived through the changes and were affected daily by the modi- fications that took place in the political structure of their society and the cultural reform that rapidly occurred all around them . While I will consider in this work the ...
... lived in a modest residence that he purchased from the orator Hortensius : Habitavit primo iuxta Romanum forum supra Scalas Anularis in domo quae Calvi oratoris fuerat ; postea in Palatio , sed nihilo minus aedibus modicis Hortensianis ...
... lived on the Palatine and installed his military headquarters there , and his house took on a certain measure of repute because Romulus had once lived in that place . And even if the emperor resides someplace else , his house still ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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