Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Aeneid, Virgil, Paul Zanker
22 Mar 2018
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Ideal: erudite poet (big book big evil) refusal to engage in politics. I do not know, but i feel it happening and i am being torn apart. A set of ideas, a mental framework with which people perceive and describe a complex reality. Augustan ideology: what is an ideology, formation and dissemination of augustan ideology, paul zanker: the power of images in age of augustus . Augustus was influential, but also influenced by others (e. g. augustan poets: Literature, art and architecture (a) manifest and (b) disseminate augustan ideology throughout the entire empire. Empire is pacified (janus temple: the republic restored, pax augusta, restoration of the mores maiorum, a new golden age clementia, iustitia. 17 bc: secular games (a new age) The clipeus virtutis presented to augustus in 27 b. c. and placed in the curia. Augustan literature: tradition & innovation, mutual influences. The poets (horace, vergil, ovid) and augustus.
