GRAECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND “POLITICAL-INSTRUMENTAL MYTH” CONCEPT Cover Image

ГРЕКО-РИМСКАЯ МИФОЛОГИЯ И ПОНЯТИЕ «ПОЛИТИКО-ИНСТРУМЕНТАЛЬНЫЙ МИФ»
GRAECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND “POLITICAL-INSTRUMENTAL MYTH” CONCEPT

Author(s): Mahabbat Gumerovna Unusova
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Comparative history, Ethnohistory, Social history
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: comparative mythology; Graeco-Roman myth; discussion on Roman myth; Homer; Virgil; Aeneas of Homer and Virgil; principate period; establishment of instrumental myth;

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the problem of similarities and differences in ancient Roman and Greek mythology. During the comparative analysis of Homer and Virgil’s texts, we reconstruct the process by which Virgil (who lived during the era of Emperor Augustus’reign) developed a new instrumental myth establishing the straight and obvious way from the Gods to the “God’s favored” Imperial Rome.

  • Issue Year: 157/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 106-113
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian