natural world Flashcards
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the natural overtaking other forces
the tiber flooding in horace - threatening the structural integrity of the vesta temple
eclogues 2 and 7 - romantic figure is sidelined, literally taken over by what occurs naturally (whether that be through spells and the plants within them etc)
Horace 3.2 - what is sweet and right - the young men are literally killed by what is supposedly ‘natural’ for them
the texts exerting power over their authors
the conflation of desire for the erotic object and infatuation its the textual landscape
very much in propertius - where his generic movement is influenced by his relationship to the puella
in virgil - hypnotised by his own writing (are the audience as hypnotised?) - the illusion of detachment, proven false by the intrusion of Augustus and of Rome and the end of the genre at the close of the work, and the sense that he can detach himself, but he is still unabashedly present - book 10 is to gallus but it’s also a monologue - so infatuated with his own world that he is no longer able to communicate beyond himself
