The God of Rome: Jupiter in Augustan Poetry
Julia Hejduk, "The God of Rome: Jupiter in Augustan Poetry"
English | ISBN: 0190607734 | 2020 | 356 pages | PDF | 25 MB
English | ISBN: 0190607734 | 2020 | 356 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Inspiring reverence and blasphemy, combining paternal benignity with sexual violence, transcendent universality with tribal chauvinism, Jupiter represents both the best and the worst of ancient religion. Though often assimilated to Zeus, Jupiter differs from his Greek counterpart as much as Rome differs from Greece: "the god of Rome" conveys both Jupiter's sovereignty over Rome and his symbolic encapsulation of what Rome represents. Understanding this dizzyingly complex figure is crucial not only to the study of Roman religion, but also to the study of ancient Rome more generally.
The God of Rome examines Jupiter in Latin poetry's most formative and fruitful period, the reign of the emperor Augustus. As Roman society was transformed from a republic or oligarchy to a
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