CLAS 151gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Vestal Virgin, Anna Perenna, Pontifex Maximus
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Using rape as a link to poliical oppression. Augustus is erasing rome"s past, refashioning it as himself. Ovid speaking to his poetry: elegiac couplet - long and short line (fasi 2 pg 26) o o. All of ovid"s poetry is in elegiac couplets, but wriing about culture, history (roma) should be in long lines - epic meter. Elegiac couplets are supposed to be the amorous meter - usually used for sex and tears. Feb 1: more juno sospita - next to augustus" house o. Shrines to juno sospita were neglected, but ovid backhandedly says that augustus" big boast was that he restored 82 temples in just 27 bc. Romulus totally got rekt, but augustus"s self-imaging is based on romulus and aeneas. Augustan forum: semicircular recesses have statues of romulus and aeneas on the sides, and augustus in the middle. Augustus is supposed to be the new romulus, new founder of rome.
