scholars Flashcards
1
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Paul Zanker
Godly Associations
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• Octavian associated with Apollo: discipline, morality, purification
contrasts
• Antony’s association with Dionysus: extravagant, self-indulgent
2
Q
Paul Zanker
classical sculpture
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- emphasis on heroism and youth
- moral messages emphasized idealism
- contrast with Republican Hyper-realism
- Augustan sculpture “moral and political objectives”
3
Q
Paul Zanker
Mauseleum
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- understood best in crisis context
- muddled message presented
- both a declaration of tradition and a display of personal power
4
Q
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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- Ovid’s work is a metaphor for the changes to Augustan-Roman society
- could be read as the change from Octavian to Augustus
5
Q
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Actium
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- A battle for Roman Values
- Cleopatra is a threat
- Victory of Roman decency over barbarianism and corruption
- Antony was an innocent Roman victim
6
Q
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
forum
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- Metaphor for society
- Republic forum was open and accessible from all sides, Augustan forum was closed off with limited accessibility
- Republic forum was the appropriate centre for an open and outward-looking society, Augustan forum points to the closing of horizons and embodies empire values
- The central reference point was not the past, but the emperor himself “for Augustus, in claiming the past as his own, had hijacked it”
7
Q
Karl Galinsky
Saecular games and New age
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- should not be viewed in isolation
- Augustus’ project to transform Roman morals
- instead of Hesiodic golden age of bliss and pleasure, the while Augustan age was “to depend on the moral effort of the Romans, the ruling class in particular”
8
Q
Karl Galinsky
Ara Pacis
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- Procession participants are real people, not just the aesthetic
- not pompous and grim, but relaxed “the blessings of pax”
9
Q
Mary Beard
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no distinction between the state of war and the state of peace
