>At 02:06 PM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote: >>i am having problems finding information on the relationship between >>augustus and virgil and the affects of the aeneid on the political >>platform of the time.
D W-O said: : >On the relationship between poet and patron, you might (if you haven't >already) look at Peter White, Promised Verse. On the impact of the Aeneid >on Augustan politics (a welcome change from our usual discussions of the >impact of Augustan politics on the Aeneid), I think Karl Galinsky's >comments on the parade of Roman worthies, the death of Turnus, and the >Forum of Augustus are a good place to start; see Augustan Culture, 206, >210-12. Not all would agree that Galinsky Augustan Culture 210 is a good place to "start" on the death of Turnus, since there is not even a hint there that there that the killing of Turnus might be viewed as more complicated than simply "a justified act of vengeance that has both a personal and a public dimension." For some of the complexities of pietas, public, and private here, see e.g. Lyne, R.O.A.M., "Vergil and the Politics of War," CQ 33 (1983) 188-203, repr. Harrison, S.J, Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid (Oxford 1990). >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KIMBERLY ANN SANTORA) said: > >All I know is that augustus asked him to write it .... Not really shown by any evidence to be true. Jim O'Hara James J. O'Hara Professor of Classical Studies & Chair Classical Studies Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesleyan University 860/685-2066 (fax: 2089) Middletown CT 06459-0146 Home Page: http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/faculty/jim.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
