Clio and the poets : Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography / edited by D.S. Levene and D.P. Nelis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levene, D. S. (David Samuel), 1963-

Nelis, Damien.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 228.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Historiography--Rome.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

xv, 396 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography

Clio & the poets

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Summary:

In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on -- or reacted against -- historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians transformed poetic themes for their own ends.

Contents:

Clio exclusa / C.J. Classen

Propertius the historian (3.3.1-12?) / Francis Cairns

Actium and Teutoburg : Augustan victory and defeat in Vergil and Tacitus / V.E. Pagán

Stepping out of the ring : repetition and sacrifice in the boxing match in Aeneid 5 / Andrew Feldherr

Archaism and historicism in Horace's Odes / Ellen O'Gorman

Ab inferis : historiography in Horace's Odes

Cynthia Damon

Vergil's Italy : ethnography and politics in first-century Rome / Clifford Ando

Roman archaeology in Vergil's Arcadia (Vergil Eclogue 4; Aeneid 8, Livy 1.7) / Marko Marinčič

Ovid's Metamorphoses and universal history / Stephen M. Wheeler

The historian in Ovid. The Roman history of Metamorphoses 14-15 / Philip Hardie

The Alban kings in the Metamorphoses : an Ovidian catalogue and its historiographical models / Stratis Kyriakidis

The fall of Troy : between tradition and genre / Andreola Rossi

Epic encounters? Ancient historical battle narratives and the epic traditions / Rhiannon Ash

The structure of Livy's first pentad and the Augustan poetry book / Ann Vasaly

A Varronian Vatic Numa? : Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's Life of Numa / Molly Pasco-Pranger

The extinction of the Potitii and the sacred history of Augustan Rome / Hans-Friedrich Mueller

History, poetry, and Annales / T.P. Wiseman.

Notes:

"The original versions of the essays ... were given at a conference with the title 'Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography' ... University of Durham ... 31 August-3 September 1999"--P. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004117822

OCLC:

48560617