Senecan tragedy and the reception of Augustan poetry / Christopher V. Trinacty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trinacty, Christopher V., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Intertextuality.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Christopher Trinacty investigates selected moments of intertextual dialogue between Seneca's tragedies and the Augustan poets (focusing on Vergil, Horace, and Ovid) in order to develop a better understanding of Senecan poetics. Seneca acts as a reader of the Augustan tradition and incorporates his interpretation of the poetry of his predecessors in his tragedies. Because tragedy is a mélange of different genres, Seneca believes it to be the most effective genre for commenting on the Augustan tradition as a whole.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""Roman Tragedy and Senecan Tragedy""; ""Why Tragedy?""; ""The Epistulae Morales as Literary Criticism""; ""Intertextuality and Interpretation""; ""Intertextuality and Genre""; ""Intertextual Excursus""; ""Overview""; ""1: Seneca the Reader""; ""Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Readings""; ""Disease and Grim Old Age: Tragic Scenes of the Underworld""; ""Self-Fashioning and Literary Mimicry""; ""Rainbows and Knowledge: Interpreting Ovid�s Tapestries""

""Otium and the Eclogues""""Conclusions: Quotation and Intertext""; ""2: Intertextuality and Character""; ""Seneca and Ovid""; ""Phaedra""; ""Phaedra�s Remedia Amoris?""; ""Change of Heart (Phd. 274�357)""; ""Multiple Phaedras""; ""Medea, Myrrha, Byblis, and Phaedra""; ""Hero(id)es and Villains""; ""Seneca�s Medea""; ""Ovid�s Medea: The Metamorphoses and Heroides""; ""Seneca�s Medea: Mother and Wife (Love and Marriage)""; ""Seneca�s Medea: Mother and Wife (Becoming “Medea�)""; ""Seneca�s Medea as Witch""; ""Seneca�s Medea: A new Medea?""; ""3: Intertextuality and Plot""

""Prologue Speakers""""Juno Furens""; ""Oedipus� Plague""; ""Oedipus� Sphinx""; ""Choral Songs""; ""How Troy Falls: The Captive Chorus of Agamemnon and Carm. 3.3""; ""Eternal Death?: Carm. 3.30 in Troy""; ""Versions of Orpheus: Reading Carm. 1.12 with Medea and Hercules""; ""The Limits of Horatian Choral Lyric?: Carm. 1.3 and Vergil""; ""Messenger Speeches""; ""The Return of Achilles""; ""The Messenger Speech of the PhaedraIf""; ""The Epic Messenger""; ""Conclusion""; ""4: Intertextuality, Writers, and Readers""; ""Seneca�s Georgics""; ""Vergil�s Medea and Oedipus""; ""Ars Tragica""

""Intertextuality and Metapoetics""""Cassandra as (Falsa?) Vates""; ""Oedipus the Reader""; ""Necromancy""; ""Conclusion""; ""Epilogue""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX OF PASSAGES""; ""SUBJECT INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-935658-0

0-19-935657-2

OCLC:

922972899