THE AUGUSTAN UTOPIA OF HORACE AND VERGIL AND THE IMPERIAL DYSTOPIA OF PETRONIUS AND JUVENAL.

Both Horace and Vergil were recruited by Maecenas to give a poetic stamp of approval to the Augustan regime, though neither was an uncritical adherent. Horace appears to have accommodated himself to the new order until he emerges as Augustus' poet laureate. During the reigns of Nero and Domitian, ho...

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Publicado en:	Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity Vol. 19; pp. 31 - 53
Autor principal:	Bond, Robin
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Department of Classics, University of Otago 2010
Materias:	Utopias Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C. Virgil, 70 B.C.-19 B.C. Maecenas, Gaius Cilnius, ca. 70 B.C.-8 B.C. Dystopias Juvenal, fl. 1st century-2nd century Petronius Arbiter, ca. 27-66 Poetry (Literary form)
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Sumario:	Both Horace and Vergil were recruited by Maecenas to give a poetic stamp of approval to the Augustan regime, though neither was an uncritical adherent. Horace appears to have accommodated himself to the new order until he emerges as Augustus' poet laureate. During the reigns of Nero and Domitian, however, Petronius and Juvenal respectively suggest that the Augustan utopia has been replaced by an imperial nightmare of dystopic proportions.