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Augustan Poetry and the Irrational (Hardcover)
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Augustan Poetry and the Irrational (Hardcover)
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The establishment of the Augustan regime presents itself as the
assertion of order and rationality in the political, ideological,
and artistic spheres, after the disorder and madness of the civil
wars of the late Republic. But the classical, Apollonian poetry of
the Augustan period is fascinated by the irrational in both the
public and private spheres. There is a vivid memory of the
political and military furor that destroyed the Republic, and also
an anxiety that furor may resurface, that the repressed may return.
Epic and elegy are both obsessed with erotic madness: Dido
experiences in her very public role the disabling effects of love
that are both lamented and celebrated by the love elegists.
Didactic (especially the Georgics) and the related Horatian
exercises in satire and epistle, offer programmes for constructing
rational order in the natural, political, and psychological worlds,
but at best contain uneasily an ever-present threat of confusion
and backsliding, and for the most part fall short of the austere
standards of rational exposition set by Lucretius. Dionysus and the
Dionysiac enjoy a prominence in Augustan poetry and art that goes
well beyond the merely ornamental. The person of the emperor
Augustus himself tests the limits of rational categorization.
Augustan Poetry and the Irrational contains contributions by some
of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number
of younger scholars. An introduction which surveys the field as a
whole is followed by chapters that examine the manifestations of
the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil,
Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explore elements of
post-classical reception.
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