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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 92
... past.20 Instead , as Gowing argues , a passage from Cicero's dialogue De Oratore illustrates that the two concepts were interrelated in a way that allows us to define the impor- tance of memory for history and vice versa : Historia vero ...
... past served as a comforting retreat from confronting the more disturbing events of his own time , but his penchant for escape did not include writing about the time when , for example , the god Saturn lived among the proto - Ro- mans ...
... past scelera . Now the princeps must demonstrate pietas and appear as the saviour of the Roman people in order to establish that the bloodshed and violence of the civil war are a thing of the past . Wallace - Hadrill questions how the ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown