HUMAN H1AS Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iliad, Stoicism, Odysseus
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Octavian (augustus) created something like a diarchy, made it seem like he was sharing power with the senate, but really he had sole control because he commanded the army. Imperator (29 bce) augustus 27 pater patriae (2 bce) gets own month (8 bce) Senate declared julius a deity and augustus divi filius after death deified as well. Referred to son of a goddess , parallel with augustus. Used image making to show power rather than actual political action. 70-10 bce virgil lived through collapse of republic chaos and order that augustus brough. Virgil avoided direct historical subject of augustus achievements. Vaticinium ex eventu , use analogy of aeneas / augustus to satisfy propaganda needs. Augustus was the grandnephew of caesar , caesar"s definitive genealogy made augustus also divine. Jupiter more stoic than zeus because of stoicism was popular at the time. Virgil is trying to write relative to past classics, aka the odyssey / iliad.
