Building and Staging Politics Livy and Augustus Kennedys Augustan and AntiAugustan What are the problems associated with discussing the politics of ancient literature ID: 531465
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Politics & Poetics (2)
Building and Staging Politics: Livy and AugustusSlide2
Kennedy’s ‘
Augustan and Anti-Augustan…
’
What
are the problems associated with discussing the ‘
politics
’ of ancient literature
?
Why might we as classicists argue that investigating ancient Roman political terms/concepts like
concordia
(concord),
amicitia
(friendship) or
libertas
(freedom) simply by looking these words up in a Latin or English dictionary is inadequate?Slide3
What is the difference between thinking about
Augustus
as a
person
and as an
idea
?
Why can ‘no statement, even made by Augustus himself, be categorically “
Augustan
” or “
anti-Augustan
”’, as Kennedy puts it? Slide4
Livy
Born Padua,
59BCE
, died
17CE
.
Begun his
Ab
Urbe
Condita
(‘From the Founding of the City’) in c.
30BCE.
This monumental history stretched from the fall of Troy and Aeneas’ exile to contemporary times (the death of Drusus, Augustus’ stepson, in 9BCE).
Of an original
142
books, 1-10 and 21-45 are preserved (45 is damaged at the end), plus fragments.Slide5
Livy’s ‘
politics
’
Hard to define, and much debated
An escapist? (Pref.5: ancient history a diversion from present troubles?)
Patavinitas
:
Paduan
provincialism = ?
Augustus called him ‘The Pompeian’ (Tacitus
Annals
4.34), yet ‘this was no obstacle to their friendship’…Slide6
Other (interlinked) approaches to Livy’s ‘
politics
’
The politics of
space and spectacle
, and/or the
ideology of form
(Kraus, Jaeger,
Feldherr
)
The politics of
morality
(
Langlands
, Roller)
The politics of
rape
(
Klindienst
,
Joshel
,
Vandiver
)
Exemplarity
/ the modelling, showcasing and production of aristocratic competition (
Habinek
, Roller) Slide7
Monumentum
OLD
1) A statue, commemorative trophy, building, monument.
2) A sepulchral monument, tomb.
3) A memorial, token, reminder, example.
4) A written memorial, document, record. (….
annalium
= annals, work of history). Recorded tradition.