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.

Nelis, Damien.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical poetry, Latin--History and criticism--Congresses.

Historical poetry, Latin.

History, Ancient--Historiography--Congresses.

History, Ancient.

Literature and history--Rome--Congresses.

Literature and history.

Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D--Congresses.

Rome.

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D--Influence--Congresses.

Augustus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Clio & the poets

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

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Summary:

The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on — or reacted against — the historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace’s Odes to Ovid’s Metamorphoses , on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Clio exclusa 1.

C. J. Classen

2. Propertius the Historian (3.3.1-12)?25

Francis Cairns

3. Actium and Teutoburg: Augustan Victory and Defeat

in Vergil and Tacitus45

V. E. Pagdn

4. Stepping Out of the Ring: Repetition and Sacrifice in

the Boxing Match in Aeneid 561

Andrew Feldherr

5. Archaism and Historicism in Horace's Odes81

Ellen O'Gorman

6. Ab inferis: Historiography in Horace's Odes103

Cynthia Damon

7. Vergil's Italy: Ethnography and Politics in First-century

Rome123

Cliford Ando

8. Roman Archaeology in Vergil's Arcadia (Vergil Eclogue 4;

Aeneid 8; Livy 1.7)143

Marko Marincict

9. Ovid's Metamorphoses and Universal History163

Stephen M. Wheeler

10. The Historian in Ovid. The Roman History of

Metamorphoses 14-15191

Philip Hardie

11. The Alban Kings in the Metamorphoses: an Ovidian

Catalogue and its Historiographical Models211

Stratis Kyriakidis

12. The Fall of Troy: Between Tradition and Genre231

Andreola Rossi

13. Epic Encounters? Ancient Historical Battle Narratives

and the Epic Tradition253

Rhiannon Ash

14. The Structure of Livy's First Pentad and the Augustan

Poetry Book275

Ann Vasaly

15. A Varronian Vatic Numa?: Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's

Life of N uma291

Molly Pasco-Pranger

16. The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of

Augustan Rome313

Hans-Friedrich Mueller

17. History, Poetry, and Annales331

T' P. Wiseman

Bibliography363

Index of passages discussed381

General Index388

List of Contributors395.

Notes:

Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-379) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46435-6

9786610464357

1-4175-3659-4

90-474-0049-6

OCLC:

191039245

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400493 DOI