Augustan Propaganda
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- Created on: 20-05-16 06:12
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- "The ‘Aeneid’ is nothing more than propaganda for Augustan Rome." - June 2015
- Aeneas and Propaganda
- Pietas - Key Roman Attribute
- Looks after his men by providing them with stags in Bk 1 just as Augustus looks after Rome
- Eventually extracts himself from Carthage and Dido unlike Mark Anthony who did not with Cleopatra
- Loyal to family (e.g Book 2, 5 and 6) relating to Augustus and his moral legislation
- Divine Link - Venus is his mother. Augustus believed he came from divine roots
- Military and Diplomatic Skill (e.g Bk 8 with Evander) - similar to skills needed with Emperor
- His furor (e.g Bk 12) is excusable to show Caesars killing of his fathers murderers
- Builds a lasting city from defeated people just as Augustus overcomes the horror of the Civil Wars in order to establish the Golden Age
- Other Propaganda
- Neptune being compared to Aeneas and the Plebs in Book 1
- Foundation Myth of the founding of Rome
- Allows for Augustus to be seen as a Second Aeneas
- A Second Golden Age
- Gates of Janus/Gates Of War: Aeneas exits the Gates of Ivory
- Prophecies (Book 1, Book 6) that heavily reference Jupiter
- THE SHIELD! Book 8
- Other Elements of the Narrative
- Stands alone as an interesting and engaging story
- Emotive feelings evoke from Deaths (e.g Pallas, Dido)
- Chronicles an almost Odysseyan Journey
- An analysis of heroism, life and death
- Stands alone as an interesting and engaging story
- Ineffective Propaganda
- If Aeneas is a representation of Augustus, why is he sometimes presented as weak
- Aeneas has a lack of clementia and is full of furor in Book 2 and Book 12 - these are not morals Augustus was in line with representing
- Aeneas and Propaganda
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