Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-51683-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 832 g

Apollo's importance in the religion of the Roman state was markedly heightened by the emperor Augustus, who claimed a special affiliation with the god. Contemporary poets variously responded to this appropriation of Phoebus Apollo, both participating in the construction of an imperial symbolism and resisting that ideological project. This book offers a synoptic study of 'Augustan' Apollo in Augustan poetry. Topics explored include the divine self-imaging of late Republican rivals for power, poetic imaginings of Apollo's intervention at the pivotal battle of Actium, how poets 'read' Augustus' new Palatine Temple of Apollo and the deity's role in the reconstituted Saecular Games, and Apollo's key position in the emerging dialectic between poetics - as traditional divine patron of music and literature - and politics - as patron of Augustus. Discussions encompass the major Latin poets (Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid) as well as anonymous voices in poetic lampoons, encomia, and contemporary Greek verse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, John F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Octavian and Apollo; 2. Apollo at Actium; 3. Apollo and the legend of Aeneas; 4. Apollo Palatinus; 5. Apollo and the New Age; 6. Apolline poetics and Augustus; 7. Ovid's Metamorphoses and Augustan Apollo.

Über Autor(innen)

Miller, John F.
John F. Miller is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, where he has been Chair of the Department of Classics for many years. He is the author of Ovid's Elegiac Festivals. Studies in the Fasti and of numerous articles on various Roman poets, especially Ovid.