Propertius, affected at an early age by Augustus' quest for power and the
submission of the conquered, had attitudes critical of Augustus, but he felt
pressure to veil his true opinions by flattering the Emperor in his poetry for the
sake of self-preservation. Many of his poems praise the military
accomplishments of Augustus, but they also contain signals that Propertius is not
expressing his true attitudes on the surface. Propertius gives descriptions of
military conquest a distasteful flavor, and he rejects outright the Augustan
program of pax through the total subjugation of Rome’s enemies, with whom he
identifies as a victim of imperial conquest. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3413 |
| Date | 21 July 2011 |
| Creators | Kruebbe, Ashley Dawn |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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