Teaching through images : imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry / edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clay, Jenny Strauss, editor.

Vergados, Athanassios, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic poetry, Classical--History and criticism--Congresses.

Didactic poetry, Classical.

Figures of speech in literature--Congresses.

Figures of speech in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction /Jenny Strauss Clay and Athanassios Vergados

2 Ties That Bind: Verbal Fetters and Ring Composition in Hesiod's Theogony / Jenny Strauss Clay

3 Constructing Other Eras in Didactic Poetry: Two Case-Studies / Zoe Stamatopoulou

4 Designing a Cosmic Architecture: Craftsmanship in Empedocles' Poetry / Ilaria Andolfi

5 An Image Sublime: The Milky Way in Aratus and Manilius / Patrick Glauthier

6 Atomistic Imagery: Repetition and Reflection of the World in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura / Abigail Buglass

7 Are Lucretius' Images Clear? / Joseph Farrell

8 Grain, Atoms, and Didactics: "Broken" Images in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura / Eva Marie Noller

9 A Quiet Soul: The Suppressed Image of Harmony-Theory in De Rerum Natura / Noah Davies-Mason

10 Plagues and the Limits of Didactic Authority: Lucretius and Others / Monica R. Gale

11 Gigantomachy and Spontaneous Growth in the Georgics / Zackary Rider

12 Tempora Mutantur: Metamorphic Imagery in Ovid's Fasti / Anke Walter

13 Teaching through Exempla in the Ars Amatoria: The Case of Pasiphae / John F. Miller

14 Thinking in Images: The Construction of Imaginary Landscapes in Dionysius Periegetes, Avienius, and Priscianus / Arnold Bärtschi

15 The Cultural Warfare of Hunting: Military Imagery in Grattius' Cynegetica and Augustan Didactic / Christoph G. Leldl

16 Pseudo-Oppian's Didactic Paths in the Cynegetica / Athanasslos Vergados.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"The majority of the chapters collected in this volume began their life as papers delivered at a conference on imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry organised at the University of Heidelberg on 1st-3rd July 2016."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-50158-4

OCLC:

1291314648