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Vergil, Æneid

Vergil, Æneid. LLT 180 Spring MMXIII. P. VERGILIVS MARO. Vergil (70 BC-19 BC). Author of the Æneid and other pöms . Well-off Roman dude who would rather write than fight Wrote the Æneid at Augustus’s personal request Æneid : pöm about how Aeneas basically founded Rome

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Vergil, Æneid

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  1. Vergil, Æneid LLT 180 Spring MMXIII

  2. P. VERGILIVS MARO

  3. Vergil (70 BC-19 BC) Author of theÆneidand other pöms. Well-off Roman dude who would rather write than fight Wrote the Æneidat Augustus’s personal request Æneid: pöm about how Aeneas basically founded Rome Thinly veiled poem about how Augustus basically saved Rome Æneid was regarded as historically correct Æneidwas regarded as Rome’s greatest cultural work His pötry conveyed ETHICAL LEADERSHIP His pötry conveyed COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT His pötry conveyed CULTURAL COMPETENCE

  4. The Roman Republic Founded April 21, 753 BC by Romulus and Remus Rome = small city on hills overlooking a ford on the Tiber Captured all Italy by 264 BC 100 years = 3 Punic Wars = Carthage as evil empire By 44 BC included Spain, France, Greece, Ancient Egypt Got too big to run with republican Roman institutions Seven civil wars in the first century BC alone! First Triumvirate = Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus Rise of the warlord with his client army The Roman world not big enough for all three By 48 BC, Julius Caesar ruled the whole Roman world But how could he rule the whole Roman world well?

  5. Rome, 44 BC

  6. The Roman BRAND The old Roman ways are the best ways = mosmaiorum Jupiter loves the Romans since he loves the old Roman ways All Romans, male and female, are bad a55e5 Romans kicked their kings out in 509 BC = mosmaiorum The Roman Republic founded 509 BC = mosmaiorum Republic worked well for running a city-state in 509 BC Roman empire kept getting bigger and bigger Republic kept working less and less well Rise of the warlord with his client army The Roman world not big enough for all three By 48 BC, Julius Caesar ruled the whole Roman world Experimented with making himself king ≠ mosmaiorum

  7. The Ides of March, 44 BC

  8. Gaius Octaviusin 44 BC

  9. How Octavius Saved Rome 44 BC to 31 AD = civil war vs. Second Triumvirate The old Roman ways are the best ways = mosmaiorum Jupiter loves the Romans since he loves the old Roman ways Romans kicked their kings out in 509 BC = mosmaiorum Julius became a human pincushion in 44 BC = mosmaiorum All the power of a monarchy with the façade of a Republic Called it the PRINCIPATE – Octavius is merely the prince PRINCIPATE gave the Roman world 300 years of peace. Octavius rebrands himself as Augustus Caesar Augustus = savior of the mosmaiorum Relentless public relations campaigns glorifying Augustus Augustus = greatest Roman ever. Hands down. No kidding.

  10. Son of the God Julius

  11. TemplumMartisVltoris

  12. Augustus F. Caesar in 20 BC

  13. Augustus Caesar as Pontifex Maximus

  14. Res GestaeDiviAugusti

  15. πράξεις τε καὶ δωρεαὶ Σεβαστοῦ θεοῦ

  16. Res GestaeDiviAugusti

  17. Rome’s PVBLIC AFFAIRS MISSION Vergil, Æneid6.847-853 Excudentaliispirantiamolliusaera,credo equidem, vivosducent de marmorevoltus,orabuntcausasmelius, caeliquemeatusdescribentradio, et surgentiasideradicent: turegereimperiopopulos, Romane, memento;haetibieruntartes; pacisqueimponeremorem,parceresubiectis, et debellaresuperbos Others will forge breathing bronzes more smoothly, I believe, and draw forth living features from marble. They will plead law-suits better and trace the sky’s movements with a rod and describe the rising stars. You, Roman, govern the nations with your power- remember this! These will be your arts – to impose the ways of peace, to show mercy to the conquered and to subdue the proud.

  18. Reading the Æneid to Augustus

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