Irrational panegyric in Augustan poetry
In offering praise the Augustan poets exaggerate, fantasize and lie; but they describe themselves as inspired and beyond reason — like the Sibyl in Aeneid 6 (affected by Apollo, but n.b. bacchatur uates). The paper touches on the physicality of the divine emperor, irrationality in geography and ast...
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Oxford University Press
2015
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