Augustan poetry and the Roman Republic / edited by Joseph Farrell and Damien P. Nells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farrell, Joseph, 1955-

Nelis, Damien.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Politics and literature--Rome.

Politics and literature.

Historiography--Rome.

Historiography.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Virgil--Criticism and interpretation.

Virgil.

Horace--Criticism and interpretation.

Horace.

Propertius, Sextus--Criticism and interpretation.

Propertius, Sextus.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic' focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Per transitum tangit historiam: Intersecting Developments of Roman Identity in Virgil""; ""2. The Philology of History: How and What Augustan Literature Remembers: Horace, Odes, 2.7, Virgil, Ecl. 1, and Propertius, 1.19, 1.22, and 2.13B""; ""3. Camillus in Ovid�s Fasti""; ""4. Roman Gentes in Ovid�s Fasti: The Fabii and the Claudii""; ""5. Trojan Palimpsests: The Archaeology of Roman History in Aeneid 2""; ""6. Virgil�s Bacchus and the Roman Republic""; ""7. Caesar, Lucan, and the Massilian Marathonomachia""

""8. From Paris to Rome: Virgil�s Andromache between Politics and Poetics in Charles Baudelaire�s Le Cygne""""9. Horace�s Epistle 2.1, Cicero, Varro, and the Ancient Debate about the Origins and the Development of Latin Poetry""; ""10. Constructing the Roman Myth: The History of the Republic in Horace�s Lyric Poetry""; ""11. Numa in Augustan Poetry""; ""12. Past, Present, and Future in Virgil�s Georgics""; ""13. Catullus 64 and the Prophetic Voice in Virgil�s Fourth Eclogue""; ""14. Virgil�s Caesar: Intertextuality and Ideology""

""15. The Domus of Fama and Republican Space in Ovid�s Metamorphoses""""16. Afterword""; ""References""; ""Index Locorum""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-19-166322-0

0-19-958722-1

OCLC:

877443194