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, Peta

Harrison, S. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fowler, Don, 1953-1999.

Fowler, Don.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Classical philology.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Festschriften

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2007

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Classical Constructions is 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 authors were all inspired by the desire to commemorate a beloved colleague and friend and have produced papers of great freshness and insight. The essays, including that by Don Fowler himself, are much concerned with the reception of the classical world, extending into the realms of modern philosophy, art history, and cultural studies. There are fundamental studies of Horace's style and Ovid's exile. The volume is unusual in the informality of the style of a number of pieces, and the openness with which the contributors have reminisced about the honorand and reflected on his early death

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 Michèle 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 (pages 320-358) and indexes

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Print version Classical constructions

ISBN:

0191527254

9780191527258

9781281145413

1281145416

9780191711534

0191711535

OCLC:

314219734

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