Politics And Divinization In Augustan Poetry

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Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry

Author : Bobby Xinyue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191946288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry written by Bobby Xinyue and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of one of most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.

Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry

Author : Bobby Xinyue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192855972
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry written by Bobby Xinyue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.

Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199587221
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic written by Joseph Farrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019890813X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eleven chapters on the genre of Latin elegy by leading scholars in the field. Latin elegy is typically thought to have flourished for a brief period at Rome between c. 40 BC and the early decades of the first century AD; it was the pre-eminent vehicle for writing about amatory matters in this period and among its principal exponents were Propertius and Ovid, whose works constitute the focus of this volume. Their poems and poetic collections were, however, by no means restricted to the themes of love, even if amatory concerns often surface at unexpected moments in texts that are not ostensibly concerned with love. Both poets were alive to their precursors' writings in elegiacs, and so aetiological themes and reflection on contemporary political circumstances form an integral part of their poetry. Such concerns are explored in some of the chapters on Propertius, on Ovid's Fasti and exile poetry, and also in a Renaissance elegy that looks closely to its literary heritage as it comments on the concerns of its day. Some contributions to this volume also shed new light on the typically elegiac conceit of separation, notably in amatory and exilic texts, while others look to conceptions of Roman identity and the relationship between the natural world and the cultural, political and literary spheres. All of the chapters share an interest in the close-reading of texts as the basis for drawing broader conclusions about these fascinating authors, their poetry, and their worlds.

Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus

Author : Anthony John Woodman
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521245531
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus written by Anthony John Woodman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-04-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars

Author : Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350379476
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars by : Stephen Harrison

Download or read book An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars written by Stephen Harrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance and early modern period. An appealing feature of Renaissance and early modern Latinity is the composition of fine Neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases, the two are actually combined in the same work. In others, the creative composition and scholarship accompany each other along parallel tracks, when scholars are moved to write their own verse in the style of the subjects of their academic endeavours. In still further cases, early modern scholars produced fine Latin verse as a result of the act of translation, as they attempted to render ancient Greek poetry in a fitting poetic form for their contemporary readers of Latin.

The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome

Author : Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108529917
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome written by Nandini B. Pandey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals. This book illuminates Roman subjects' vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets' sustained exploration of audiences' active part in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome's evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike.

Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti

Author : Darja Šterbenc Erker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004527044
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti by : Darja Šterbenc Erker

Download or read book Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti written by Darja Šterbenc Erker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid's Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions to the religious self-fashioning of the imperial family. Darja Sterbenc Erker carefully reconstructs Ovid's subtle unmasking of religious fundaments of Augustus' principate.

The God of Rome

Author : Julia Hejduk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190607734
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The God of Rome written by Julia Hejduk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspiring reverence and blasphemy, combining paternal benignity with sexual violence, transcendent universality with tribal chauvinism, Jupiter represents both the best and the worst of ancient religion. Though often assimilated to Zeus, Jupiter differs from his Greek counterpart as much as Rome differs from Greece: "the god of Rome" conveys both Jupiter's sovereignty over Rome and his symbolic encapsulation of what Rome represents. Understanding this dizzyingly complex figure is crucial not only to the study of Roman religion, but to the whole of literary, intellectual, and religious history. This book examines Jupiter in Roman poetry's most formative and fruitful period, the reign of the emperor Augustus. As Roman society was transformed from a republic or oligarchy to a de facto monarchy, Jupiter came to play a unique role as the celestial counterpart of the first earthly princeps. While studies of Augustan poetry may glance at Jupiter as an Augustus figure, or Augustus as a Jupiter figure, they rarely explore the poets' richly nuanced treatment of the god as a character in his own right. This book fills that gap, demonstrating how Jupiter attracts thoughts about politics, power, sex, fatherhood, religion, poetry, and most everything else of importance to poets and other humans. It explores the god's manifestations in the five major Augustan poets (Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid), providing a fascinating window on a transformative period of history, as well as a comprehensive view of the poets' individual personalities and shifting concerns"--

Clio and the Poets

Author : David Levene
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047400496
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Clio and the Poets written by David Levene and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on — or reacted against — historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians transformed poetic themes for their own ends.

Augustan Poetry and the Irrational

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198724721
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Irrational written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the chapters in this volume originated as papers in a colloquium entitled "Augustan Poetry and the Irrational," held at the University of Cambridge from 30 August to 1 September 2012.

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Author : Nicholas Freer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350070521
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics written by Nicholas Freer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil's Georgics, the most neglected of the poet's three major works, is brought to life and infused with fresh meanings in this dynamic collection of new readings. The Georgics is shown to be a rich field of inherited and varied literary forms, actively inviting a wide range of interpretations as well as deep reflection on its place within the tradition of didactic poetry. The essays contained in this volume – contributed by scholars from Australia, Europe and North America – offer new approaches and interpretive methods that greatly enhance our understanding of Virgil's poem. In the process, they unearth an array of literary and philosophical sources which exerted a rich influence on the Georgics but whose impact has hitherto been underestimated in scholarship. A second goal of the volume is to examine how the Georgics – with its profound meditations on humankind, nature, and the socio-political world of its creation – has been (re)interpreted and appropriated by readers and critics from antiquity to the modern era. The volume opens up a number of exciting new research avenues for the study of the reception of the Georgics by highlighting the myriad ways in which the poem has been understood by ancient readers, early modern poets, explorers of the 'New World', and female translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853995521
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus written by Anton Powell and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political aspects of Augustan poetry have attracted much academic interest. The aim of this study is to take account of the effects of Augustan propaganda not only on the work of contemporary Roman writers, but also on the critical tradition itself. The six essays presented in this volume explore the political themes in the work of major poets such as Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Propertius. Using traditional as well as post-structuralist approaches, the essays examine the controversies of the Civil Wars, the emerging issues of treason and free speech and changing representations of Cleopatra and female power.

Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry

Author : David O. Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521136693
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry written by David O. Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject. Augustan poets were self-conscious and concerned with the works of their predecessors and contemporaries, yet there often appears a conflict between their professed poetics and what they in fact wrote. In his 'poetic biography' of the period, Professor Ross traces the developing attitude of these poets towards poetry as an art and considers why they came to write as they did. Discussion throughout is based on specific poems and passages, providing a background for critical interpretation. The book offers comprehensive and striking answers to long-standing questions and will be of importance to all students of Latin poetry.

Roman Poetry & Propaganda in the Age of Augustus

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472540058
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Roman Poetry & Propaganda in the Age of Augustus written by Anton Powell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The political aspects of Augustan poetry have attracted much academic interest. The aim of this study is to take account of the effects of Augustan propaganda not only on the work of contemporary Roman writers, but also on the critical tradition itself. The six essays presented in this volume explore the political themes in the work of major poets such as Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Propertius. Using traditional as well as post-structuralist approaches, the essays examine the controversies of the Civil Wars, the emerging issues of treason and free speech and changing representations of Cleopatra and female power."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heaven Is Empty

Author : Filippo Marsili
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438472013
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Heaven Is Empty written by Filippo Marsili and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of Chinas early empires (221 BCE9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohesive function of the ancient Mediterranean cult of the divinized ruler was crucial for the legitimization of Romes empire across geographical and social boundaries. Eventually reelaborated in Christian terms, it came to embody the timelessness and universality of Western conceptions of legitimate authority, while representing an analytical template for studying other ancient empires. Filippo Marsili challenges such approaches in his examination of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (14187 BCE). Wu purposely drew from regional traditions and tried to gain the support of local communities through his patronage of local cults. He was interested in rituals that envisioned the monarch as a military leader, who directly controlled the land and its resources, as a means for legitimizing radical administrative and economic centralization. In reconstructing this imperial model, Marsilire interprets fragmentary official accounts in light of material evidence and noncanonical and recently excavated texts. In bringing to life the courts, battlefields, markets, shrines, and pleasure quarters of early imperial China, Heaven Is Empty provides a postmodern and postcolonial reassessment of religion before the arrival of Buddhism and challenges the application of Greco-Roman and Abrahamic systemic, identitary, and exclusionary notions of the sacred to the analysis of pre-Christian and non-Western realities. Heaven Is Empty is a tour de force. It reveals Marsilis bold vision of early Chinese religion and his deft use of critical theory. The book will inspire scholars of early China for generations to come. Miranda Brown, author of The Politics of Mourning in Early China and The Art of Medicine in Early China: The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive