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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: god of Rome
    sub title: Jupiter in Augustan poetry
  name:
    name part: Hejduk, Julia Dyson
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 340 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 to the whole of literary, intellectual and religious history. This book examines Jupiter in Roman 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 de facto monarchy, Jupiter came to play a unique role as the celestial counterpart of the first earthly princeps. While studies of Augustan poetry may glance at Jupiter as an Augustus figure, or Augustus as a Jupiter figure, they rarely explore the poets' richly nuanced treatment of the god as a character in his own right. This book fills that gap, demonstrating how Jupiter attracts thoughts about politics, power, sex, fatherhood, religion, poetry and most everything else of importance to poets and other humans. It explores the god's manifestations in the five major Augustan poets (Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid), providing a fascinating window on a transformative period of history, as well as a comprehensive view of the poets' individual personalities and shifting concerns.
  note: Julia Dyson Hejduk.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-320) and indexes.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Roman deity)
      name part: Jupiter
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Latin poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Religion
  classification: PA6029.R5 H45 2020
  classification: 870.9/382
  identifier: 9780190607739
  identifier: 0190607734
  identifier: 9780190607746
  identifier: 9780190607753
  identifier: 2019040674
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190910
    record change date: 20201020070605.0
    record identifier: in00004150664