Putting Dido on the Map: Genre and Geography in Vergil's Underworld

Feldherr, Andrew

doi:10.1353/are.1999.0002

“…75.Gowers (2005), 176: ‘no traveller crosses back over the river Styx (425 inremeabilis undae )’. On chthonic geography: Feeney (1986), Feldherr (1999), Clark (2001), Horsfall (2013) passim .…”

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“…82.Cf., perhaps, the shield of Aeneas in Aen. 8, divided spatially and temporally by rivers (Feldherr [1999], 86f. ).…”

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(MIS)READING THE GNAT: TRUTH AND DECEPTION IN THE PSEUDO-VIRGILIANCVLEX

Kearey¹

2018

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TheCulex—the earliest and best attested of the purported minor works of Virgil, and the most outright in gesturing towards Virgilian authorship—poses a problem for modern classical scholarship. Since at least the seventeenth century scholars have been preoccupied with the poem's authenticity. Is it a piece of early Virgilianiuuenilia, as the ancient testimonies and mediaeval transmission of the text seem to assert, or a later production? If a later production, should we see it as a deliberate forgery, or as a poem severed in the course of transmission from its original author and helplessly swept up in Virgil's train? The authenticity problem has proven persistent: as recently as the 1970s, scholars tried to claim theCulexfor Virgil. Even among those who think it non-Virgilian, the apparent consensus of anonymous late-Tiberian authorship has been contested by Otto Zwierlein's suggestion of M. Julius Montanus and Jean-Yves Maleuvre's, even more unlikely, of Augustus.

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The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome

Pandey

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2018

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When, with Brutus and Cassius slaughtered, there was no longer an army of the state; when Sextus Pompey was put down in Sicily; and Lepidus had been swept aside and Antony had been killed, so that not even on the Julian side was there any leader left but Caesar; then, casting off the title of triumvir, Augustus carried himself about as consul, claiming he was content with tribunician power for protecting the people. Meanwhile, he seduced the army with gifts, the common people with grain, and everyone with the sweetness of peace; and little by little he increased his strength and absorbed the offices of the senate, officials, and laws into his own person, with no opposition.-Tacitus, Annales .  . Authorizing AugustusFew figures have been credited with more control over the course of political events than Rome's first emperor, Augustus. From Tacitus to the twenty-first century, Augustus' success in transforming the res publica into an enduring dynastic monarchy has been ascribed to his artful manipulation of Roman institutions and perceptions. But Augustus' deathbed scene, in Suetonius' account (Aug. .), both illustrates and circumscribes his power over public image. supremo die identidem exquirens, an iam de se tumultus foris esset, petito speculo capillum sibi comi ac malas labantes corrigi praecepit et admissos amicos percontatus, ecquid iis videretur mimum vitae commode transegisse, adiecit et clausulam:Ἐπεὶ δὲ πάνυ καλῶς πέπαισται, δότε κρότον καὶ πάντες ἡμᾶς μετὰ χαρᾶς προπέμψατε.

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The Mutual Constitution of Augustus

Pandey

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The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome

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When, with Brutus and Cassius slaughtered, there was no longer an army of the state; when Sextus Pompey was put down in Sicily; and Lepidus had been swept aside and Antony had been killed, so that not even on the Julian side was there any leader left but Caesar; then, casting off the title of triumvir, Augustus carried himself about as consul, claiming he was content with tribunician power for protecting the people. Meanwhile, he seduced the army with gifts, the common people with grain, and everyone with the sweetness of peace; and little by little he increased his strength and absorbed the offices of the senate, officials, and laws into his own person, with no opposition.-Tacitus, Annales .  . Authorizing AugustusFew figures have been credited with more control over the course of political events than Rome's first emperor, Augustus. From Tacitus to the twenty-first century, Augustus' success in transforming the res publica into an enduring dynastic monarchy has been ascribed to his artful manipulation of Roman institutions and perceptions. But Augustus' deathbed scene, in Suetonius' account (Aug. .), both illustrates and circumscribes his power over public image. supremo die identidem exquirens, an iam de se tumultus foris esset, petito speculo capillum sibi comi ac malas labantes corrigi praecepit et admissos amicos percontatus, ecquid iis videretur mimum vitae commode transegisse, adiecit et clausulam:Ἐπεὶ δὲ πάνυ καλῶς πέπαισται, δότε κρότον καὶ πάντες ἡμᾶς μετὰ χαρᾶς προπέμψατε.

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Putting Dido on the Map: Genre and Geography in Vergil's Underworld

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(MIS)READING THE GNAT: TRUTH AND DECEPTION IN THE PSEUDO-VIRGILIANCVLEX

(MIS)READING THE GNAT: TRUTH AND DECEPTION IN THE PSEUDO-VIRGILIANCVLEX

The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome

The Mutual Constitution of Augustus

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