Politics And Divinization In Augustan Poetry PDF
It is an amazing Latin poetry book written by Bobby Xinyue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 07 June 2022 with total pages 252. Read book in PDF, EPUB and Kindle directly from your devices anywhere anytime. Click Download button to get Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry book now. This site is like a library, Use search box to get ebook that you want.
- Author : Bobby Xinyue
- Release Date : 07 June 2022
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Genre : Latin poetry
- Pages : 252
- ISBN 13 : 9780192855978
- Total Download : 759
- File Size : 47,5 Mb
Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry PDF Summary
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.
