Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Virgil"
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Golden Age Imagery and the Artistic Philosophy of Ovid's Metamorphoses
(2012-08-24)In the Metamorphoses, Ovid brings together Golden Age imagery with contrasting scenes of destruction, making this paradoxical amalgam a motif within his epic. This study connects Ovid’s use of Golden Age language to his ... -
PUTTING THE EMPIRE IN ITS PLACE: OVID ON THE GOLDENNESS OF ROME
(2012-12-14)This study explores the relationship between poetry and politics in Books 1 and 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Vergil had refashioned the concept of the golden age to better resonate with Roman values, and Ovid in turn ... -
The Unfeeling Tutelage of the State and Divine Authority in Virgil's Aeneid
(2017-08-30)Venus oversees the physical movement that begins from Troy and ends in Italy; she thus secures the establishment of a new state in Italy, imperium sine fine. Venus is the ancestress of the line that stretches from Aeneas ...