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Type: | Book chapter |
Title: | Freedom of speech in Virgil and Ovid |
Author: | Davis, P. |
Citation: | Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry, 2016 / Mitsis, P., Ziogas, I. (ed./s), Ch.[10], pp.183-198 |
Publisher: | Walter De Gruyter |
Publisher Place: | Berlin |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Series/Report no.: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; 36 |
ISBN: | 9783110472523 |
Editor: | Mitsis, P. Ziogas, I. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Peter J. Davis |
Abstract: | This paper reflects on the changing nature of free speech in the Augu- stan period through an examination of episodes in its two most important epics. It focuses primarily on the council of the Latins in Aeneid 11 and a sequence of stories in Metamorphoses 2 and 3 in which outspokenness is punished. It is par- ticularly striking that while Virgil’s Drances can demand freedom of speech in a public context, freedom of speech in Metamorphoses exists only in private. This reflects, I suggest, the altered political circumstances between the 20 s BCE and the first decade CE. |
Keywords: | Freedom of speech; Virgil; Aeneid; Ovid; Metamorphoses; Drances |
Rights: | © 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110475876-010 |
Published version: | https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110475876/9783110475876-010/9783110475876-010.xml |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Classics publications |
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