The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome : Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography.

Pandey, Nandini B.
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781108534178 (electronic bk.)
9781108422659
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0242
Yayın Bilgisi
©2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (318 pages)
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Mutual Constitution of Augustus -- 1.1 Authorizing Augustus -- 1.2 The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus? -- 1.2.1 The Palatine as Case Study -- 1.3 The Augustan Poets and Reader Response -- 1.3.1 Readership in Vergil -- 1.3.2 Power, Art, and Representation in Ovid -- Metamorphoses -- Ovid's Exile -- 1.4 Reading Augustan Monuments -- 1.5 Chapter Outlines -- Chapter 2 History in Light of the Sidus Iulium -- 2.1 A Star Is Born -- 2.2 The Comet in History -- 2.3 Horizon of Expectations for the Comet's Reception -- 2.3.1 Early Coinage -- 2.4 The Sidus Iulium in Early Augustan Poetry -- 2.4.1 Vergil, Eclogue 9 and Georgics 1 -- 2.4.2 Horace, Odes 1.12 and Propertius 3.18 -- 2.5 Sidereal Signs in the Aeneid -- 2.6 The Julian Comet on Coins of the 20s-10s BCE -- 2.7 The Sidus Iulium in Later Augustan Poetry -- 2.7.1 Propertius 4.6 -- 2.7.2 Gods and God-Makers in Ovid and Manilius -- 2.7.3 Metamorphoses 15 -- A ''Pro-Augustan'' History? -- 2.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Questioning Consensus on the Palatine -- 3.1 The Discursive Face of Augustan Consensus -- 3.2 Propertius 2.31/32 -- 3.2.2 Propertius 2.32 -- An Alternate Library -- 3.3 Missing Women in Horace -- 3.4 The Danaid Belt in Vergil's Aeneid -- 3.5 Ovid's Elegiac Revisitations of the Palatine -- 3.5.1 Amores 2.2 -- 3.5.2 Tristia 3.1 -- Paths to the Palatine -- Jupiter or Apollo? -- Exclusus Liber -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Appendix to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 Remapping the Forum Augustum -- 4.1 The Idea of Empire -- 4.2 On First Looking into Augustus' Italy in Aeneid 6 -- 4.2.1 Reading for Absence at Daedalus' Temple -- Cyclical Paths through Space and Time -- Landscape of Loss -- 4.2.2 Mapping the Underworld -- The Parade of Heroes -- 4.3 The Forum Augustum.
4.3.1 Arrangement and Omissions -- War and Caesar -- Speaking Silences -- 4.3.2 Coopting the Augustan Cityscape -- 4.4 Remapping Rome in Ars Amatoria 1 -- 4.4.1 Urbs as Orbis -- 4.4.2 Ghostly Presences: Gaius and the Forum Augustum -- 4.5 From Empire without End to the Ends of the Earth -- Chapter 5 The Triumph of the Imagination -- 5.1 The Roman Triumph -- 5.2 Triumph as Representation -- 5.3 The Boscoreale Cups -- 5.4 Vergil's Shield of Aeneas -- 5.5 Gallus and the Elegiac Triumph -- 5.6 Propertius 3.4 -- 5.7 Ovid's Amatory Triumphs -- 5.7.1 Amores 1.2 -- 5.7.2 Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1 -- 5.8 Ovid's Exilic Triumphs -- 5.8.1 Information Transmission in Tristia 3.12 -- 5.8.2 Tristia 4.2 and the Triumph of the Imagination -- 5.8.3 Ex Ponto 2.1 and the Trouble with Fama -- 5.8.4 Poetry as Prophecy in Ex Ponto 3.4 -- 5.8.5 Emperor as Symbol -- 5.8.6 Emperor as Public Property -- 5.8.7 Reading Change into Triumph -- 5.8.8 Ovid's Inspired Reader -- 5.9 Empire of the Imagination -- Chapter 6 The Last Word? -- 6.1 The Poetics of Power -- 6.2 Augustus' Last Will and Testament -- 6.2.1 Augustus' Funeral -- 6.2.2 Res Gestae as Titulus to Rome -- 6.2.3 Funerary Laudations -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum.
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Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
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