Abstract
The ‘Augustan myth’ is an association between divine (mainly Apollo), heroic (Achilles and Hercules) and royal (Romulus, Numa and Alexander) models. Its creation was a social process that occurred progressively and was imposed on the cultural imagination through images, ceremonies, public events, orality, and literature. In Georgics, the inclusion of Augustus as a new god in the proem dedicated to divinities, occupying the thirteenth place in the zodiac (G. 1. 32-35), implies, mainly, the reception of a mediating divinity for men, for its double nature between the divine and the human. In the present work we will observe the elements that allow us to identify the mythologization procedure, which works not only to promote the figure of the ruler among his contemporaries, but as a specifically literary procedure that configures the plot.
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