Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Λατινική ΦιλολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Σοφία Παπαϊωάννου, Καθηγήτρια Κλασικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Ανδρέας Μιχαλόπουλος, Καθηγητής Κλασικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Μυρτώ Γκαράνη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Κλασικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Ταυτότητα και μνήμη στην τοπογραφία της πρωτο-Ρώμης
Translated title:
Identity and memory in the topography of early Rome
Summary:
This essay studies the way the Augustan poets perceived
the topography of early Rome, the way this perception interacts with the Augustan building project and, last but not least, how it influences the shaping of the Roman identity and cultural memory. After defining the terms "memory" and "identity" and presenting the Augustan building project, I analyze a body of texts covering the whole Augustan poetry (Virg. Aen. 8, Tib. 2.5, Prop. 4.1, 4.4, 4.9, Ovid Fasti 1, 2, Tr. 3.1). I suggest that every literary portrait of early Rome is strongly correlated to the changes, which Augustus attemps to the urban design during the second half of the 1st century B.C.E. All the literary portraits examined redefine and renew memoria Romana and lead to a multilayered dialogue, politic, generic and national at once.
Rome is presented as a palimpsestic city and constitutes a hyper-text
("ur- Rome"), where all different portraits of the city function as intertexts.
The city itself, the memory that the citizens create for it and the whole Roman identity become texts both dynamic and open.
Main subject category:
Latin literature
Keywords:
memory, identity, monuments, Augustan Rome, Augustan poetry
Number of references:
205
