Paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture / edited by Philip Hardie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardie, Philip R.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

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

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Paradox in literature.

Marvelous, The, in literature.

Art, Roman.

Paradox in art.

Marvelous, The, in art.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xiii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

Text in English with some Latin followed by an English translation.

Summary:

The literature and art of Augustan Rome are often thought of as the product of an age of high classicism, characterized by maturity, balance, and harmony. This volume examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous, demonstrating its importance in the Augustan visual arts.

Contents:

Introduction : paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture / Philip Hardie

Horace's Ars poetica and the marvellous / Mario Citroni

Where the wild things are : locating marvellous in Augustan wall painting / Verity Platt

Against nature? Some Augustan responses to man-made marvels / Rebecca Armstrong

Virgil : a paradoxical poet? / Philip Hardie

The question of the marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil / Alain Deremetz

In search of the lost Hercules : strategies of the fantastic in the Aeneid / Mario Labate

Thaumatographia, or 'what is the theme?' / Jürgen Paul Schwindt

Phaethon and the monsters / Alessandro Barchiesi

Prodigiosa mendacia uatum : responses to the marvellous in Ovid's narrative of Perseus (Metamorphoses 4-5) / Florence Klein

Encountering the fantastic : expectations, forms of communication, reactions / Marco Fucecchi

Constructing a narrative of mira deum : the story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8) / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-51 : noua monstra and the foedera naturae / Damien Nelis

Latrator Anubis : alien divinities in Augustan Rome, and how to tame monsters through aetiology / Gianpiero Rosati

Ordering wonderland : Ovid's Pythagoras and the Augustan vision / Mary Beagon

Delusions of grandeur : Lucretian 'passages' in Livy / Andrew Feldherr

The strange art of the sententious declaimer / Joy Connolly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-379) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199231249

0199231249

OCLC:

316430202

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