Abstract
Pandey’s study comes in the wake of such landmark studies of texts and monuments as Paul Zanker’s Augustus und die Macht der Bilder (1987), Diane Favro’s The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (1996), and Karl Galinsky’s Augustan Culture (1998). Pandey’s reading decenters the authority of Augustus in creating Augustan moral, literary, and aesthetic ideologies, and instead argues that a multimodel, diachronic process across various media constructed and contested Augustan political, moral, and aesthetic hegemony. Her diffused model allows those hegemonic structures scholars have seen in, particularly, Augustan visual culture, to emerge ad hoc through the agency of contemporary writers, readers, and viewers.
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2020
Publisher Statement
Published by: The Vergilian Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26956115
Recommended Citation
Damer, Erika Z., "[Review of] The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography. Vergilius (2020) by Nandini Pandey" (2020). Classical Studies Faculty Publications. 53.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/classicalstudies-faculty-publications/53
