March 22

Topic: Vergil and Augustan Ideology

Readings:

• Aeneid 6.535-635
• Duncan F. Kennedy, review of Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus, ed. Tony Woodman and David West (Cambridge 1984), in Liverpool Classical Monthly 9 (1984) 157-160.
• Duncan F. Kennedy, "'Augustan'" and 'Anti-Augustan': Reflections on Terms of Reference," in Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus, ed. Anton Powell (London 1992), pp. 26-58.
• Anton Powell, "The Peopling of the Underworld: Aeneid 6.608-27," in Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context, ed. Hans-Peter Stahl (London 1998), pp. 85-100.