Aeneas, pius tyrant : Frames of tyrants and kings in Roman Augustan poetry

PETROVIĆOVÁ, Katarina. Aeneas, pius tyrant : Frames of tyrants and kings in Roman Augustan poetry. In Symposium Peregrinum 2025 : Tyranny as a Political, Historical, Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Concept, Università di Messina, Noto and Syracuse, Sicily, 11-13 June 2025. 2025.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Aeneas, pius tyrant : Frames of tyrants and kings in Roman Augustan poetry

Název česky

Aeneas, zbožný tyran : Rámce tyrana a krále v římské augustovské literatuře

Autoři

PETROVIĆOVÁ, Katarina ORCID

Vydání

Symposium Peregrinum 2025 : Tyranny as a Political, Historical, Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Concept, Università di Messina, Noto and Syracuse, Sicily, 11-13 June 2025, 2025

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Itálie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Ne

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

Augustovská poezie; obraz tyrana; obraz krále; skryté hlasy; vergilius

Klíčová slova anglicky

Augustan poetry; tyrant imagery; king imagery; hidden voices; virgil

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

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Anotace

V originále

One of the narratives relating to the Augustan poets is the interpretation of their poetry as ideological support and celebration of Augustus' personality and politics. Since the second half of the twentieth century, however, studies have emerged that draw attention to second voices, or more precisely, hidden voices in Augustan poetry (see analyses of Virgil /A. Parry, 1963/ or Horace /D. Armstrong, 1970/), voices that draw attention through intertexts and intratexts to a different face of Augustus's world and thus of the poetry of his time. The aim of the paper will be to explore the conceptual framing of authoritarian rulers in poems (tyrants, etc.) and to describe the imagery their individual uses evoke, as well as whether and to what extent hidden voices are reflected in references to specific representatives of these names. Can the references to Pygmalion and other Numidian, Syracusan, Latin, and Laurentian tyrants and kings be read as mere historical and mythological reminiscences? Under what conditions are the terms tyrant and king treated synonymously? How should we understand the fact that even Aeneas is named as a tyrant (Verg. Aen. 7,266 and 12,75)? Indeed, can it be ruled out that Vergil frames the hero he describes as pius as a despot (as V. Parker, 1998, 154, does in his study on the semantics of the political concept of the tyrant), or is it appropriate to look for a deeper meaning of Aeneas' tyranny? Vergil's poems, especially the Aeneid, occupy the most evidence, and thus the greatest scope for interpretation, but Ovid, Horatius, and the lyric poets are not far behind. With the Latinized Greek word tyrant, the poets are rather sparing. But once we extend our attention to other terms (the synonymous use with the term tyrant is evident, especially in the term rex: cf. Ovid. Trist. 3,11,41 and 3,11,43 /both terms denote the Phalaris/), we gain enough material to seek answers to these and other related questions.

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Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1696/2024, interní kód MU

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