Re: VIRGIL: Augustus and Vergil
Your best way to approach this is to look at things which Augustus himself promoted about himself (e.g. as seen in his Res Gestae ... read between the lines a bit, e.g., in regards to his role in the civil war ... how does Augustus portray his role?). At the same time, you should be looking at the imagery which was being promoted in the visual arts (great place to start: Zanker's *Power of Images in the Age of Augustus*) and see how those visual images are echoed as literary images in the *Aeneid*. As for making Romans 'feel good' about themselves, remember that the intended audience probably wasn't 'all Romans'(although it is likely that this was the 'eventual' audience (more or less), just the literate ones who would appreciate the craftsmanship involved. That's a very narrow class of people ... what do you suppose the message is that's being passed on to them via the Aeneid? dm At 12:08 PM 4/17/1998 EDT, you wrote: I'm am working on a research paper that hopes to arrive at some conclusion that relates Augustus patronage of Vergil to the Aeneid. My feeling is that one of the purposes of writing the Aeneid was so that the Romans could feel good about themselves, and also that Augustus would be able to take and maintain control of the empire. I see the Aeneid as being a powerful tool of Augustine Propoganda. My paper also seeks to relate other works of literature in more modern times to political issues (ex: _Uncle_Tom's_Cabin_ and the issue of slavery). Any comments, suggestions, of direction towards research materials would be GREATLY appreciated. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body. --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body.
Re: VIRGIL: Augustus and Vergil
I'm am working on a research paper that hopes to arrive at some conclusion that relates Augustus patronage of Vergil to the Aeneid. My feeling is that one of the purposes of writing the Aeneid was so that the Romans could feel good about themselves, and also that Augustus would be able to take and maintain control of the empire. I see the Aeneid as being a powerful tool of Augustine Propoganda. My paper also seeks to relate other works of literature in more modern times to political issues (ex: _Uncle_Tom's_Cabin_ and the issue of slavery). Any comments, suggestions, of direction towards research materials would be GREATLY appreciated. Lotsa good stuff, but most of it pointing away from the direction in which you're headed, in White, Peter, Promised verse : poets in the society of Augustan Rome. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. James J. O'Hara Jim O'Hara Professor of Classical StudiesClassical Studies Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesleyan University 860/685-2066 Middletown CT 06459-0146 fax: 860/685-2089 --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body.
RE: VIRGIL: Augustus and Vergil
One problem I hav ejust discovered with the thesis you proposed is that it is impossible to say that Virigl wrote the Aneneid because of Caeser Augustus becuase there is no written sources for evidence of what Vrigl's motives were for written the epic. Love Betseyz --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body.
Re: VIRGIL: Augustus and Vergil
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Ehrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm am working on a research paper that hopes to arrive at some conclusion that relates Augustus patronage of Vergil to the Aeneid. My feeling is that one of the purposes of writing the Aeneid was so that the Romans could feel good about themselves, and also that Augustus would be able to take and maintain control of the empire. I see the Aeneid as being a powerful tool of Augustine Propoganda. My paper also seeks to relate other works of literature in more modern times to political issues (ex: _Uncle_Tom's_Cabin_ and the issue of slavery). Any comments, suggestions, of direction towards research materials would be GREATLY appreciated. If you mean that Vergil was, in some sense, commissioned to write the _Aeneid_, you will have to engage with Peter White, _Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), which denies this widely accepted model of Augustan literary life. Of course, there is nothing to stop Vergil writing 'Augustan propaganda' on his own initiative; the notion that poets are natural oppositionists and support the government only when they have been bought is sheer bosh. List-members will know I have made no secret of my own view that Vergil (a) was sincerely pro-Augustus and (b) had no earthly reason not to be; so of course I am sympathetic to your account of his purpose, but I emphasize the word 'his'. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Roadusque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body.
