Imperium and Cosmos

2009-04-08 Architecture

Author : Paul Rehak
Release : 2009-04-08
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Imperium and Cosmos written by Paul Rehak. This book was released on 2009-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesar Augustus promoted a modest image of himself as the first among equals, a characterisation that was popular with the ancient Romans. This work focuses on Augustus's Mausoleum and Ustrinum, the Horologium-Solarium, and the Ara Pacis. It also examines the artistic imagery on these monuments.

Virgil's Aeneid

1986 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Release : 1986
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Virgil's Aeneid written by Philip R. Hardie. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology. The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire; between orbis and urbs. In combining this cosmic imperialism with the military and panegyrical themes proper to epic, Virgil draws on a number of traditions: the notion that the ideal poet is a cosmologer; the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry (especially Homer); the poetic use of hyperbole and the 'universal expression'. Virgil's imagination is dominated by the cosmological poem of Lucretius; the "Aeneid", like the "De rerum natura", is a poem about the universe and how man should live in it, but Virgil's constant inversion of Lucretian values makes of him an anti-Lucretius. Recent criticism has tended to stress the pessimistic and private sides of the "Aeneid"; but any easy conclusion that the poet was at heart anti-Augustan is precluded by the depth and detail with which he develops the imperialist themes discussed in this book.

Vergil's Empire

2004-09-01 Political Science

Author : Eve Adler
Release : 2004-09-01
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Vergil's Empire written by Eve Adler. This book was released on 2004-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict between scientific enlightenment and ancestral religion that permeated the ancient world. The work concentrates on Vergil's response to the physics, psychology, and political implications of Lucretius' Epicurean doctrine expressed in De Rerum Natura. Proceeding by a close analysis of the Aeneid, Adler examines Vergil's critique of Carthage as a model of universal enlightenment, his positive doctrine of Rome as a model of universal religion, and his criticism of the heroism of Achilles, Odysseus, and Epicurus in favor of the heroism of Aeneas. Beautifully written and clearly argued, Vergil's Empire will be of great value to all interested in the classical world.

The Arts of Empire

1998 Literary Criticism

Author : Walter S. H. Lim
Release : 1998
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Arts of Empire written by Walter S. H. Lim. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses its reading of the poetics and politics of colonial expansion in Renaissance England on the lives and writings of such diverse figures as Sir Walter Ralegh, John Donne, Richard Hakluyt, Samuel Purchas, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton. It studies a wide range of texts, including The Discoverie of Guiana, Virginia's Verger, Othello, The Faerie Queene, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. It also examines the inscription in these writings of themes, motifs, and tropes frequently found in colonial texts: the land as desiring female body and object of desire; the masculinist gaze responding to the exotic; and the experience of the thrilling sensations of wonder.

Ovid's Causes

1994 History

Author : K. Sara Myers
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Download or read book Ovid's Causes written by K. Sara Myers. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating investigation of some of Ovid's source-material.

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