Greek to Latin : frameworks and contexts for intertextuality / G.O. Hutchinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, G. O.

Contributor:

Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Comparative literature--Greek and Latin.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Latin and Greek.

Latin literature--Greek influences.

Latin literature.

Greek literature--Roman influences.

Greek literature.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

xii, 438 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

The relationship between Latin and Greek literature is one of the most fundamental questions for Latin literature, and for those who study the reception of ancient Greek, and this innovative volume shows some of the contexts in which the interaction of the literatures should be viewed. Hutchinson investigates Roman conceptions of their own literary history and Greek literary history as two chronological sequences, artificially separated, and takes the reader around the Mediterranean to see the different places where Romans encountered Greek art with words. The volume looks at Roman perceptions of the contrasting Greek and Latin languages and compares in detail Latin adaptation of Greek writing with Latin adaptation of Latin, and views the different approaches to Greek material, ideas, and works between three prose 'super-genres', and within the poetic 'super-genre' of hexameters. Based on an independent collection of evidence, it draws extensively on inscriptions, archaeology, papyri, scholia, and little-known texts.

Contents:

Part I Time

1 Making Histories 5

Literature escaping time 5

Structures of time 7

i Chronological series 7

ii Two histories 12

Consequences and complications 17

Transgression and asymmetry 18

Home, sweet-and sour 22

2 Strife and Change 25

Old and new 25

Beginnings of the histories 27

Coming first 28

Imitari not just 'imitate' 28

Literary war 31

Ethnic character and the shape of the histories 32

Changing stock 35

Part II Space

3 Rome, Villas, South Italy 45

Links before Latin literature 46

Rome: public benefits 47

Rome: initiatives of Greek and others 52

Rome: patronage by elite and princeps 59

Villas 65

South Italian Cities 70

4 Sicily, Athens, Rest of Greek Mainland, Rhodes 77

Sicily 77

Athens: visitors 81

Constructing Athens 86

Literary experience in Athens 90

Rest of mainland Greece 97

Rhodes 101

5 Asia, Massilia, Alexandria 109

Asia: Greek talent 109

Asia: Roman views and visits 113

Massilia 120

Alexandria 123

Some implications 130

Part III Words

6 Two Languages 135

Passive and active literary use 135

Roman authors of Greek 137

i Prose 137

ii Poetry 143

Distance between the languages 147

Borrowing 149

Scattering 153

Performance and impact 156

Richness 158

Rightness 159

Attic and sound 160

Love and strife 163

7 Transposition and Triads 165

Crossing the Alps 166

Leaving Lemnos 170

Placing pastoral 176

8 Styles and Settings 183

The birth of point 183

Moving Medea 188

Recreating the Timaeus 194

9 Trunk and Branches 201

The horse's teeth 201

Translation from the stars 205

Transferring plague 210

Part IV Genre

10 The Landscape of Prose 223

Super-genre 223

Texts and times 224

Multi-tasking 226

i Philosophy and history 226

ii Oratory and philosophy, oratory and history 229

Prose-rhythm 233

i Latin beginnings 233

ii Greek development and spread across Latin genres 235

iii Isolation of history 238

Matter Greek and Roman 240

i History 240

ii Oratory 242

iii Philosophy 245

11 The Grounds of Prose 249

Philosophy 249

i Addressed treatise 249

ii Letter 252

iii Dialogue 253

History 257

i Non-Address and identity 257

ii Spatial organization 260

iii Speeches 262

Oratory 265

i Reality 265

ii Other audiences 267

iii Rhetoric 269

iv Space 270

12 The Grounds of Hexameter Poetry 275

The super-genre 275

Grounds 279

i Narrative 279

ii Didactic 281

iii Pastoral 284

iv Satire 287

v Occasional poetry 290

vi Inscriptions 292

13 Space and Intertextuality in Hexameters 295

Narrative 295

Didactic 301

Pastoral 307

Satire 312

Occasional poetry 317

Inscriptions 319

14 Hexameters: History and Internal Mixture 323

Historical shapes and patterns 323

Hexameter after Tiberius 326

i Silius 326

ii Lucan 329

Growing intricacy of Homeric phrases 333

Mixing with hexameter epigram and oracle 337

Distorting pastoral 340

Mixes match: narrative and didactic 344

Range and erudition 347

External genres illuminating the super-genre 350.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0199670706

9780199670703

OCLC:

815824143

Publisher Number:

99956368947