Classical constructions : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean / edited by S.J. Heyworth ; with P.G. Fowler and S.J. Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heyworth, S. J.

Fowler, P. G.

Harrison, S. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fowler, Don, 1953-1999.

Fowler, Don.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Classical philology.

Physical Description:

xv, 368 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

A collection of ground-breaking and scholarly papers on Latin literature by a number of distinguished classicists, produced in memory of Don Fowler, who died in 1999 at the age of 46. The essays are concerned with the reception of the classical world, extending into the realms of modern philosophy, art history, and cultural studies.

Contents:

Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler

Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis

Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell

Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro

Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michele Lowrie

Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan

Contrasts / Philip Hardie

Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell

Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds

Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping

Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh

Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. Roberts

Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure / Andrew Laird

From man to book : the close of Tacitus' Agricola / Stephen Harrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-358) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9780191527258

0191527254

OCLC:

437092987