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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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Slide1

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.