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Ancient Roman literary gardens : gender, genre, and geopoetics / K. Sara Myers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, K. Sara, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin literature--History and criticism.
- Latin literature.
- Gardens in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers examines the function and representation of garden descriptions in the work of a broad range of Roman authors, such as Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Varro, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Columella, Statius, and Pliny the Elder and Younger.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : Gardens, Gender, Genre, Geopoetics
- Cic. Fin. 5.2 tanta uis admonitionis inest in locis
- The Ancient Roman Garden in Literature and Culture: Definition(s)
- Gendering the Garden
- Genre
- Geopoetics
- 1 Masculine Horticultural Self-Fashioning : Hard and Soft Labor
- Agriculture: Hard Labor
- Cicero De Senectute
- Soft Labor: Philosophical and Literary Otium
- Varro Res Rusticae
- Villa of the Papyri
- Maecenas and Lucullus
- Statius and Pliny
- Conclusion
- 2 Vergil's Garden ( Georgics 4.116-48) : A Literary Paradigm
- 3 Women in the Garden : Catullus, Ovid, and the Greek Poetic Tradition
- The Greek Poetic Tradition: Gardens, Flowers, and Meadows in Lyric and Tragedy
- Virginal Gardens in Catullus's Epithalamia (Poems 61-62)
- Ovid's Flora and Pomona: Gender and Genre Reversals in the Garden
- 4 Trampling in the Garden : Satiric Verse and Epigram
- Priapus in the Garden
- Horace, Satires 1.8
- Martial and the Epigrammatic Garden
- Petronius
- Satirical Poverty and the Moretum : Sending Up the Rustic Ideal
- 5 Columella and the Poetics of Horticulture
- Conclusion and Epilogue
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Index of Passages Discussed
- General Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 4, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197773239
- 0197773230
- 9780197773215
- 0197773214
- OCLC:
- 1437532517
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