From poetry to history : selected papers / A.J. Woodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945-

Contributor:

John W. Faires Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Historical poetry, Latin.

Historiography--Rome.

Historiography.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 446 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Contents:

1 Poetry and History: Cicero, De Legibus 1.1-5 1

2 Pauca Nuntiate: Catullus 11 17

3 A Suitable Case for Treatment? Catullus 51 24

4 A Reading of Catullus 68A 27

5 The Position of Gallus in Eclogue 6 35

6 Biformis Vates: The Odes, Catullus, and Greek Lyric 41

7 The Craft of Horace in Odes 1.1.4 59

8 Horace's First Roman Ode 70

9 Exegi Monumentum: Horace, Odes 3.30 85

10 Horace, Epistles 1.19.23-40 104

11 Horace and Historians 112

12 Poems to Historians: Catullus 1 and Horace, Odes 2.1 121

13 Propertius and Livy 145

14 Virgil the Historian: Aeneid 8.626-62 and Livy 147

15 Community Health: Metaphors in Latin Historiography 162

16 Making History: The Heading of the Res Gestae 181

17 The Date and Genre of Velleius 201

18 Pliny on Writing History: Epistles 5.8 223

19 Tacitus and the Contemporary Scene 243

20 The Preface to Tacitus' Agricola 257

21 Not a Funeral Note: Tacitus, Annals 1.8.5-6 291

22 Mutiny and Madness: Tacitus, Annals 1.16-49 296

23 Readers and Reception: A Text Case 322

24 Tiberius and the Taste of Power: The Year 33 in Tacitus 339

25 Aliena Facundia: Seneca in Tacitus 361

26 Epilogue 378.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-437) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John W. Faires Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199608652

0199608652

OCLC:

754720587

Publisher Number:

99948277334