CLA204H1 Lecture 21: Roman Myths (p 621-629) DEC 7
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To the romans, the state is an enlarged family. 17), and the historian livy (59 bc -ad17). past. Born in 70 bc near mantua, northern italy. He became a trusted member of augustus" art council with the help of maecenas, after losing. Celebrates the uncorrupted emotions and clever wit of imaginary shepherds his farm in political turmoil in 41 bc. Old-fashioned virtues of the italians: aeneid. Written during the last ten years of his life. Still unfinished at his time of death (19 bc). Augustus himself saved the poem from being burned. Context: alphabetic literacy was used as a method to control things, especially theories about the creation of the world. A mixture of myth and legend: etiological (establishing a universal theory of how the world came to be genesthai through alphabetic literacy). Use mythical traditions to justify present conditions. Explains the problems they faced as well as their moral and political solutions to these problems.