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Augustan Poetry And The Roman Republic

by Joseph Farrell

VirgilHoracePropertius, sextusOvid, 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d.Latin poetry, history and criticismPolitics and literatureHistoriographyRome, in literature

'Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic' focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

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