Grattius : hunting an Augustan poet / edited, with text, translation, introduction, and appendix by Steven J. Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Steven J., editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grattius, Faliscus--Criticism and interpretation.

Grattius.

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

Cynegeticon (Grattius, Faliscus).

Genre:

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Didactic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English.

Didactic poetry.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Grattius' 'Cynegetica' is the author's only surviving work and can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, yet Grattius is seldom read in comparison to his literary contemporaries. This study of the poet aims to make his work accessible to a wide audience and provide an impetus for future discussions.

Contents:

Text and translation

Grattius' Cynegetica : a protean poem at the heart of the Roman didactic tradition / Giulia Fanti

'Te sociam, ratio . . .' : hunting as paradigm in the Cynegetica / Monica R. Gale

Hunt as war and war as hunt : Grattius' Cynegetica and Virgil's Aeneid / Boris Kayachev

Ars venandi : the art of hunting in Grattius' Cynegetica and Ovid's Ars amatoria / Christina Tsaknaki

Motion in Grattius / G.O. Hutchinson

Grattius and Augustus : hunting for an Emperor / Steven J. Green

The conditions of poetic immortality : Epicurus, Daphnis, and Hagnon / Lisa Whitlach

Authorial surrogates in Grattius' Cynegetica / Donncha O'Rourke

Hunting with hounds in Neo-Latin : the reception of Grattius from Fracastoro to Vaniere / Victoria Moul

Hunting and the seventeenth-century English gentleman : Christopher Wase's translation of Grattius' Cynegeticon (1654) / Mike Waters - Appendix : Slaves, poetry, and the case against transposition of Verses 61-74.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-109344-0

0-19-183101-8