Imperium And Cosmos
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Author |
: Paul Rehak |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2009-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0299220141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299220143 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperium and Cosmos by : Paul Rehak
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.
Author |
: Eve Adler |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2004-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780585455099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0585455090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vergil's Empire by : Eve Adler
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.
Author |
: Philip R. Hardie |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198146914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198146919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virgil's Aeneid by : Philip R. Hardie
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.
Author |
: Walter S. H. Lim |
Publisher |
: University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0874136415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780874136418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Arts of Empire by : Walter S. H. Lim
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.
Author |
: K. Sara Myers |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472104594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472104598 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ovid's Causes by : K. Sara Myers
A stimulating investigation of some of Ovid's source-material.
Author |
: Richard F. Townsend |
Publisher |
: Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0884020835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780884020837 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan by : Richard F. Townsend
Townsend offers an interpretation of Mexica monumental art by identifying three interrelated themes: the conception of the universe as sacred structure, the correspondence of the social order and the territory of the nation with the cosmic structure, and the representation of Tenochtitlan as historically legitimate successor to past civilization.
Author |
: Penelope J. E. Davies |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2004-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0292702752 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780292702752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death and the Emperor by : Penelope J. E. Davies
"Davies sets out to ask, How did the Romans bury Caesar? And with what monuments did they sing his praises? . . . The architectural elaboration of these structures, their siting in the capital, the lines of vision and approaches that exposed them to view, the paths their complex outworks formed for visitors to walk, are all picked out with skill and presented with care in Death and the Emperor." ?Times Literary Supplement "This concise and lucidly written book is a very valuable new contribution to the studies of Roman imperial cult, political propaganda, and topography, and has the added benefit of discussing complex scholarly disputes in a manner that the non-specialist will probably follow with ease. . . . There is material in this volume that will be immensely useful to researchers in many areas: archaeology, history of architecture, iconography, history of religion, and Roman political propaganda, to name just a few. I strongly recommend it to scholars interested in any or all of the above topics." ?Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Even though its focus is on only seven specimens of architecture, the book touches upon a broad array of aspects of Roman imperial culture. Elegantly written and generously illustrated . . . this book should be of great interest to the general public as well as to the scholarly community." ?American Journal of Archaeology
Author |
: Michael W. Duggan |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 547 |
Release |
: 2020-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110677119 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110677113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cosmos and Creation by : Michael W. Duggan
This volume contains essays by some of the leading scholars in the study of the Jewish religious ideas in the Second Temple period, that led up to the development of early forms of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. Close attention is paid to the cosmological ideas to be found in the Ancient Near East and in the Hebrew Bible and to the manner in which the translators of the Hebrew Bible into Greek reflected the creativity with which Judaism engaged Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos and the creation. The concepts of heaven and divine power, human mortality, the forces of nature, combat myths, and the philosophy of wisdom, as they occur in 2 Maccabees, Ben Sira, Wisdom of Solomon and Tobit, are carefully analysed and compared with Greek and Roman world-views. There are also critical examinations of Dead Sea scroll texts, early Jewish prayers and Hebrew liturgical poetry and how they these adopt, adapt and alter earlier ideas. The editors have included appreciations of two major figures who played important roles in the study of the Second Temple period and in the history and development of the ISDCL, namely, Otto Kaiser and Alexander Di Lella, who died recently and are greatly missed by those in the field.
Author |
: David Quint |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2021-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691222950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691222959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epic and Empire by : David Quint
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.
Author |
: David Christenson |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2024-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350344686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350344680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception by : David Christenson
The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as ordering principles of human experience; divine birth and the manifold nature of divinity (both awesome and terrifying); contemplation of the sky and meteorological (ir)regularity; fears associated with overpowering natural and anthropogenic events; and the aspirations and limitations of human expression. In texts ranging from Homer to Keats, the volume's chapters apply diverse critical methods and approaches that engage with sublimity in various aesthetic, agential and metaphysical aspects. The ancient texts epic, dramatic, historiographic and lyric treated here are rooted in a remote world where, within a framework of (perceived) celestial order, literature, myth and science still communicated profoundly, a tradition that continued in literary receptions of these ancient works. This volume honours the intellectual legacy of Thomas D. Worthen, a scholar whose expertise and insights cut across multiple disciplines, and who influenced and inspired students and colleagues at the University of Arizona, USA, for over three decades. Beyond clarifying temporally and culturally distant contemplations of the human universe, these essays aim to inform the continuing sense of wonder and horror at the sublime heights and depths of our ever-changing cosmos.