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Springtime for Caesar: Vergil’s Georgics and the Defence of Octavian Adam Bunni Ph.D. 4 th June 2009
I, Adam Bunni, hereby certify that this thesis, which is approximately 80,000 words in length, has been written by me, that it is the record of work carried out by me and that it has not been submitted in any previous application for a higher degree. I was admitted as a research student in September 2006 and as a candidate for the degree of Ph.D. in September 2007; the higher study for which this is a record was carried out in the University of St Andrews between 2006 and 2009. date …… ...signature of candidate ……… I hereby certify that the candidate has fulfilled the conditions of the Resolution and Regulations appropriate for the degree of Ph.D. in the University of St Andrews and that the candidate is qualified to submit this thesis in application for that degree. date …… ...signature of supervisor ……… In submitting this thesis to the University of St Andrews we understand that we are giving permission for it to be made available for use in accordance with the regulations of the University Library for the time being in force, subject to any copyright vested in the work not being affected thereby. We also understand that the title and the abstract will be published, and that a copy of the work may be made and supplied to any bona fide library or research worker, that my thesis will be electronically accessible for personal or research use unless exempt by award of an embargo as requested below, and that the library has the right to migrate my thesis into new electronic forms as required to ensure continued access to the thesis. We have obtained any third-party copyright permissions that may be required in order to allow such access and migration, or have requested the appropriate embargo below. The following is an agreed request by candidate and supervisor regarding the electronic publication of this thesis: Access to all or part of printed copy but embargo of all or part of electronic publication of thesis for a period of 3 years (maximum five) on the following ground: publication would preclude future publication; date …… ...signature of candidate …….. ..........signature of supervisor ........……… ii
Page 1: SPRINGTIME FOR CAESAR: VERGIL'S GEO
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgments This thesis would n
Page 7 and 8: Introduction: haud facilem esse via
Page 9 and 10: ambivalence and ultimate darkness o
Page 11 and 12: thematic reading of the Georgics un
Page 13 and 14: adherents, being as they were immer
Page 15 and 16: eputation and his prospects’. 44
Page 17 and 18: development of the “genre”. Did
Page 19 and 20: The first chapter considers the rol
Page 21 and 22: propose a degree of direct involvem
Page 23 and 24: worthwhile pursuit for philological
Page 25 and 26: Chapter One: Wayward Youth A. Youth
Page 27 and 28: into Maecenas’ mouth, suggests th
Page 29 and 30: Aristotle’s young men display sev
Page 31 and 32: The idea that young men were rash a
Page 33 and 34: inberbis iuvenis, tandem custode re
Page 35 and 36: comedy are ‘far more than stock t
Page 37 and 38: literature. 57 What comedy had to s
Page 39 and 40: v) The call to arms The distaste wh
Page 41 and 42: the extract must date to the early
Page 43 and 44: to reason, and scorns his advisers
Page 45 and 46: therefore, was inaccurate and, cons
Page 47 and 48: diripuere ipsae et cratis solvere f
Page 49 and 50: with the trends witnessed in the li
Page 51 and 52: juvenile character in the Georgics.
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confronts his mother over the loss
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example of the youthful ferocitas w
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discerptum latos iuvenem sparsere p
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ut a divine warning’. 125 When Or
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sustains their peculiar sense of pa
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horse is entirely appropriate, even
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a negative in Horace’s descriptio
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external influence does not, howeve
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old Octavian as a iuvenis in the fi
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Nero. 155 The second, more critical
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iii) Aristaeus and Octavian The con
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conclusion that the tendency to cau
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descent, feeling that it grants him
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goddess of love, Venus. The Pantheo
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to gain a new bee stock; Orpheus en
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estored in 28BCE alone; 192 he defi
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Chapter Two: Springtime for Caesar
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τάων οὔ ποτε καρπ
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iii) Four Seasons Although it faced
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Here, Cicero is speaking through Ba
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B. Vergil’s Spring i) Putting one
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to by ‘ardeat’- ‘blazes’. I
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nec Veneri tempus, quam ver, erat a
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expressed in the De Rerum Natura (a
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Lucretius’ proem to Venus. 48 The
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Omne adeo genus in terris hominumqu
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saxa per et scopulos et depressas c
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ante novis rubeant quam prata color
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winter, and is planted in the autum
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e the case for the spring season in
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“capping” the predecessor. Thom
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for harvest festivals to fail to co
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efore winter once again imposes its
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Catullus’ evocation of the season
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Metamorphoses, as ‘incessant’:
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eproduction, and yet, in line 201,
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ather, bugonia reflects both of the
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tradition entered into repeatedly b
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was, to a large extent, responsible
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with the spring season specifically
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policy; it calls for concrete reali
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seasons, which bring their individu
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Chapter Three: Destruction and Crea
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ferret hiems culmumque levem stipul
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The devastation which Jupiter cause
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storms and floods witnessed in 1.31
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affairs’, and are also, in each c
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non ullus aratro dignus honos, squa
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fulfilment of the Fates, but becaus
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Jupiter, he is being Jupiter, and i
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Vergil reveals the dangers of amor
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iii) One for all: Amor and the iuve
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at the end of Book 3. 71 At a basic
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unnecessary here: the bulls can rep
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The battle of bees can be put to an
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difficulty and unpleasantness of wo
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The reference to the Deucalion myth
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these lines. 112 There is no questi
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tantamount to civil war: bugonia de
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Octavian makes it extremely difficu
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dona feram. iam nunc sollemnis duce
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salvation...bear the burden of show
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forecast. 145 Octavian, who was see
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at war with a recalcitrant nature.
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The farmer’s engagement in a war
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whose homes are destroyed in the pl
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Although its results are unseen, th
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different classes of men, which wer
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concepts’. 204 The Ara Pacis prom
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high-profile youths, Orpheus, Arist
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natural fertility. Through the visu
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Appendix I: Plates Fig. 1. Early po
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Fig. 7. Cuirass detail of statue of
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193
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Appendix II: The Two Accounts of Bu
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contradictory mythological variants
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especially quick, nor that its yiel
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Bibliography ADAMS, J.N. (1982), Th
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ECO, U. (1990), The Limits of Inter
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GRIFFIN, J. (1984), ‘Augustus and
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LA PENNA, A. (1999), ‘Hesiod in t
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PARRY, A. (1963), ‘The two voices
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WEST, M.L. (ed.) (1966), Hesiod- Th
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