politics and gods

Question 1

the eagle and the wolf in Ars Am

Answer 1

‘as doves flee the eagle in a frightened crowd // as the new born lamb runs from the hostile wolf’

compares romulus to a woman hungry bandit king - undermines and reinforces augustus’ romulean pretensions - the eagle is associated with augustus ands is somewhat more modern than the wolf as a symbol of rome - aligning mythological prehistory and the contemporary - eagle a lot in the res gestae

Question 2

intrusion of jupiter and juno upon the theban narrative

Answer 2

their marriage as a testament tot the pernicious reproduction of infidelity and revenge they immortalise in their struggle with one another (looking to io as the ultimate symbol of mortal characters being victimised by their marital conflicts