Open AccessPoetics of Resistance in Roman Antiquity: A Reading in Neronian Prosopography
Author(s) -
Emmanuel Folorunso Taiwo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the ghanaian times
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0855-1502
DOI - 10.4314/ljh.v25i1.2
Subject(s) - poetics , emperor , prosopography , principate , resistance (ecology) , literature , poetry , dissent , late antiquity , art , power (physics) , history , classics , ancient history , politics , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , ecology , biology
Voices of dissent,whether verbal or written, have the historical antecedents of being symptomatic of governments characterized by oppressive policies and brutal force. In both ancient and contemporary climes, resistance poetry assumed different meanings in different creative contexts and academic disciplines. We have witnessed dissident activities transformed beyond linguistics, into armed struggle, against the individual or \udpersons in power. During the Julio-Claudian dynasty, particularly, the Neronian Principate engendered poetics of resistance, due to its repressive policies. This paper attempts to examine the cadence of resistance poetry during this period relative to the prosopography of Emperor Nero (AD 54-65)