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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... visual culture . The key to being aware of the visual culture in which one is immersed includes taking into account the way in which others in the past have seen the same images . Another way to look at this concept of a visual culture ...
... visual culture when they viewed the changes taking place in the city of Rome at the start of Augustus ' reign . 4 Visual culture , memory , and the Roman community Understanding the role that memory played in the creation of visual ...
... visual images in literature and the visual appearance of landscapes also contributed to a tendency to see visual prompts within a physical setting . She argues : Even more explicitly than rhetoric , storytelling relied upon visual ...
Contents
The Casa Romuli and the Domus Augusti | 21 |
Jupiter Tonans Restores the Past | 44 |
Part II | 65 |
Copyright | |
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