The Use of Latin Literature During the Transition Period Between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire—How Latin Literature was Utilized to Achieve Various Political Approaches

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10.2991/assehr.k.200312.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Latin literatures, politics, Roman spirit, republic to empire, status, influence

Abstract

Julia Caesar and Augustus Caesar are two of the most important figures on the Roman history: one ended the old Roman Republic, the other started the Roman Empire. During their lifetime, the Rome complete the dramatic shift from a republic to an empire. The Gallic War and the Aeneid, two of the most influential Latin literatures, were also composed around that time period. Both were composed partially, if not wholly, as politically propagandas. For Caesar, integrating multiple idealism and glorifying his personal figure in the Gallic war paves his road to take over the government. For Augustus, deifying the emperor’s family and legitimating his power stabilizes his rule. The study will be mainly discussion how different types of writing techniques were used in those two works and how they could influence politics at the time, the core of Roman value revealed by those two works will also be discussed.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhikai Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/18
TI  - The Use of Latin Literature During the Transition Period Between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire—How Latin Literature was Utilized to Achieve Various Political Approaches
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 124
EP  - 127
SN  - 2352-5398
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