Explorations in Latin literature. Volume I, Epic, historiography, religion / Denis Feeney ; with foreword by Stephen Hinds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feeney, D. C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

List of Acknowledgements and Original Places of Publication

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Taciturnity of Aeneas

Chapter 2 The Reconciliations of Juno

Chapter 3 Epic Hero and Epic Fable

Chapter 4 Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus

Chapter 5 History and Revelation in Virgil's Underworld

Chapter 6 Following after Hercules, in Virgil and Apollonius

Chapter 7 Beginning Sallust's Catiline

Chapter 8 Leaving Dido: The Appearance(s) of Mercury and the Motivations of Aeneas

Chapter 9 Epic Violence, Epic Order: Killings, Catalogues, and the Role of the Reader in Aeneid 10

Chapter 10 Mea tempora: Patterning of Time in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Chapter 11 Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models

Chapter 12 Tenui . . . latens discrimine: Spotting the Differencesin Statius' Achilleid

Chapter 13 On Not Forgetting the 'Literatur' in 'Literatur und Religion': Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography

Chapter 14 Virgil's Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome

Chapter 15 First Similes in Epic

Chapter 16 Fictions of Citizenship in Livy's History

Published Works of Denis Feeney

Bibliography

Index locorum

General Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-60649-0

1-108-68022-4

OCLC:

1276858753