Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past. Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Per transitum tangit historiam: Intersecting Developments of Roman Identity in Virgil -- 2. The Philology of History: How and What Augustan Literature Remembers: Horace, Odes, 2.7, Virgil, Ecl. 1, and Propertius, 1.19, 1.22, and 2.13B -- 3. Camillus in Ovid's Fasti -- 4. Roman Gentes in Ovid's Fasti: The Fabii and the Claudii -- 5. Trojan Palimpsests: The Archaeology of Roman History in Aeneid 2 -- 6. Virgil's Bacchus and the Roman Republic -- 7. Caesar, Lucan, and the Massilian Marathonomachia -- 8. From Paris to Rome: Virgil's Andromache between Politics and Poetics in Charles Baudelaire's Le Cygne -- 9. Horace's Epistle 2.1, Cicero, Varro, and the Ancient Debate about the Origins and the Development of Latin Poetry -- 10. Constructing the Roman Myth: The History of the Republic in Horace's Lyric Poetry -- 11. Numa in Augustan Poetry -- 12. Past, Present, and Future in Virgil's Georgics -- 13. Catullus 64 and the Prophetic Voice in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue -- 14. Virgil's Caesar: Intertextuality and Ideology -- 15. The Domus of Fama and Republican Space in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- 16. Afterword -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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