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Name: Mythological characters in the official ideological doctrine of Caesar Augustus. The image of the enemy in the Roman literature of the Principate.

Authors: E. H. Margaryan

Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Institute of History NAS RA

Abstract: The image of the enemy in the official Roman system of values had many modalities. The internal enemy is always more harmful than the external ope. The main internal enemies were strangers, foreigners who decomposed foundations of values of Roman society and the state. Particularly pernicious one consider eastern Hellenistic values, brought about from the periphery to the very heart of the empire and which are corrosive to the soul of nobility and naive youth. The main task of the first princeps and his inner circle was an opposition to pernicious influence of Hellenism and revival of Roman virtues.

Keywords: Principate, Roman literature, the creation of an enemy, external enemy, the enemy within, the corrupting influence of the Eastern values

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