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Abstract This chapter explores how the Augustan poets respond to both the poetics and the politics of the Aeneid. It focuses on Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and then only a few of their poems. It assumes that Horace and Propertius are familiar with at least some of the content of the Aeneid while it is being written, and all of the poem before their final books are published. It is important to remember that their response to the Aeneid does not take place in a vacuum, but rather in the context of their responses to other pressures, both internal and external. While the Aeneid was an important motivation for all these poets to assert their poetic identities more strongly, this motivation may well have been 'working with' other factors pushing in the same direction.
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Abstract This chapter explores how the Augustan poets respond to both the poetics and the politics of the Aeneid. It focuses on Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and then only a few of their poems. It assumes that Horace and Propertius are familiar with at least some of the content of the Aeneid while it is being written, and all of the poem before their final books are published. It is important to remember that their response to the Aeneid does not take place in a vacuum, but rather in the context of their responses to other pressures, both internal and external. While the Aeneid was an important motivation for all these poets to assert their poetic identities more strongly, this motivation may well have been 'working with' other factors pushing in the same direction.
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