Selected papers on ancient literature and its reception / Philip Hardie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardie, Philip R., author.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 148.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 148

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Ancient--History and criticism.

Literature, Ancient.

Literature, Ancient--Appreciation.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations.

Edition:

2 Bände mit 1 ISBN

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Biography/History:

Philip Russell Hardie, FBA (born 13 July 1952) is a specialist in Latin literature at the University of Cambridge.

Summary:

"This volume gathers together about two thirds of the articles and essays published between 1983 and 2021 by Philip Hardie, whose work on ancient literature has been of seminal importance in the field. The centre of gravity lies in late Republican and Augustan poetry, in particular Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid, with important contributions on wider Augustan culture; on Neronian and Flavian epic; on the Latin poetry of late antiquity; and on the reception of Latin poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of the Original Places of Publication

List of Figures

Part I: Virgil

1 Atlas and Axis

2 The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia: An Example of 'Distribution' of a Lucretian Theme in Virgil

3 Cosmological Patterns in the Aeneid

4 Aeneas and the Omen of the Swans (Verg. Aen. 1.393-400)

5 Ships and Ship-names in the Aeneid

6 The Aeneid and the Oresteia

7 Virgil: A Paradoxical Poet?

8 Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede

9 Political Education in Virgil's Georgics

10 Virgil's Ptolemaic Relations

11 Virgil's Catullan Plots

12 Trojan Palimpsests: The Archaeology of Roman History in Aeneid 2

13 Dido and Lucretia

14 Virgil and Tragedy

Part II: Reception and Translation of the Aeneid

15 In the Steps of the Sibyl: Tradition and Desire in the Epic Underworld

16 How Prudentian is the Aeneid?

17 Strategies of Praise: The Aeneid and Renaissance Epic

18 Virgil's Fama in Leon Battista Alberti's Momus

19 Wordsworth's Translation of Aeneid 1-3 and the Earlier Tradition of English Translations of Virgil

Part III: Ovid

20 Ovid's Theban History: The First 'Anti-Aeneid'?

21 The Janus Episode in Ovid's Fasti

22 Questions of Authority: The Invention of Tradition in Ovid Metamorphoses 15

23 Ovid: A Poet of Transition?

24 The Historian in Ovid: The Roman History of Metamorphoses 14-15

25 Approximative Similes in Ovid: Incest and Doubling

26 Ovidian Middles

27 Lethaeus Amor: The Art of Forgetting

28 The Self-Divisions of Scylla

Part IV: Reception of Ovid

29 Statius' Ovidian Poetics and the Tree of Atedius Melior (Silvae 2.3)

30 Milton as Reader of Ovid's Metamorphoses

31 Ovidian Incarnations

32 The Metamorphoses of Sin: Prudentius, Dante, Milton

33 Ovidian Exile, Presence, and Metamorphosis in Late Antique Latin Poetry

Part V: Horace.

34 Vt pictura poesis? Horace and the Visual Arts

35 The Ars Poetica and the Poetics of Didactic

36 Horace and the Empedoclean Sublime

Part VI: Augustan Poetry and Culture

37 Augustan Poets and the Mutability of Rome

38 Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture

39 Augustan Poetry and the Irrational

40 Images of the Persian Wars in Rome

41 Contrasts

42 Phrygians in Rome/Romans in Phrygia

43 Fame - The Last Word?

Index Locorum

General Index

Front Matter 2

Contents Volume II

List of Figures and Plates

Part VII: Roman Epic

44 Poet, Patrons, Rulers: The Ennian Traditions

45 Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic

46 The Word Personified: Fame and Envy in Virgil, Ovid, Spenser

47 Allegorical Absences: Virgil, Ovid, Prudentius and Claudian

48 Closure in Latin Εpic

49 The Vertical Axis in Classical and Post-classical Epic

50 The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Latin Poetry

51 Crowds and Leaders in Imperial Historiography and in Epic

Part VIII: Neronian and Flavian Epic

52 Lucan's Song of the Earth

53 Flavian Epicists on Virgil's Epic Technique

54 Flavian Epic and the Sublime

55 Tales of Unity and Division in Imperial Latin Epic

Part IX: Lucretius and the Reception of Lucretius

56 Reflections of Lucretius in Late Antique and Early Modern Biblical and Scientific Poetry: Providence and the Sublime

57 Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry: Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Prudentius

Part X: Later Latin Poetry

58 Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the Poetics of the Cento

59 Martyrs' Memorials: Glory, Memory, and Envy in Prudentius Peristephanon

60 Augustan and Late Antique Intratextuality: Virgil's Aeneid and Prudentius' Psychomachia

61 Cowherds and Saints: Paulinus of Nola Carmen 18.

62 Unity and Disunity in Paulinus of Nola Poem 24

Part XI: Post-classical

63 Renaissance Latin Epic

64 Shepherds' Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic

65 Vida's De Arte Poetica and the Transformation of Models

66 Multiple Allusivity in Girolamo Vida De Arte Poetica

67 Virgilian Imperialism, Original Sin, and Fracastoro's Syphilis

68 Adamastor and the Epic Poet's Dark Continent

69 The Augustanism of Ben Jonson's Poetaster

70 Milton's Epitaphium Damonis and the Virgilian Career

71 Miltonic Echoes: Fallen and Unfallen Resonances in Paradise Lost

72 Lucan in the English Renaissance

73 Abraham Cowley Davideis, Sacri Poematis Operis Imperfecti Liber Unus

74 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric

75 Ovid and Virgil at the North Pole: Marvell's 'A Letter to Dr Ingelo'

Part XII: Greek

76 Imago Mundi: Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Shield of Achilles

77 Sign Language in On the Sign of Socrates

78 A Reading of Heliodorus, Aithiopika 3.4.1-5.2

79 Nonnus' Typhon: The Musical Giant

Bibliography

Index Locorvm

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110798852

3110798859

9783110798951

3110798956

OCLC:

1394117750