Roman Readings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Stephen.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.188

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

This volume collects seventeen pieces on the classical Latin poetry of the late Republican and Augustan period written and published since 2000.They share a common interest in the close reading of poems, with a particular focus on the issues of genre, intertextuality, poetic unity, political allusion, imagery and literary history.

Contents:

Intro

Roman Readings: Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Ovid

Preface

Contents

List of Original Places of Publication

Part A: Late Republican Poetry

1 Ennius and the Prologue to Lucretius, DRN 1 (1.1-148)

1.1 Literary programme: emphasising Ennius

1.2 The tragic touch: the Ennian Iphigenia?

1.3 The structure of the proem

1.3.1 Order from chaos?

1.3.2 Programmatic effects: Epicurus outdoes Ennius?

1.4 Conclusion

2 Issues of Unity in Catullus 2 and Catullus 51

2.1 Catullus 2 and 2b

2.2 Catullus 51

3 Altering Attis: Ethnicity, Gender and Genre in Catullus 63

3.1 Ethnicity: The Eastern and the Western Attis

3.2 Gender: Attis as Agave, Attis as Medea

3.3 Genre: Literary affinities of Catullus 63

3.4 Conclusion

4 Catullus 1: Book and Boy?

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Book and boy

4.3 Nepos as mentor

4.4 Conclusion

5 Catullus 4: Greek Epigram and Miniaturised Greek Epic

5.1 Introduction: the neoteric poets and their Greek heritage

5.2 Text

5.3 Textual and metrical issues

5.4 Literary form: epigrammatic traces

5.5 Literary history and topography: Catullus' mini-Argo

5.6 The size of the phaselus: physical and poetic aspects

5.6.1 Physical size and representation

5.6.2 Poetic size and genre

5.7 Conclusion

Part B: Augustan Poetry

6 The Primal Voyage and the Ocean of Epos: Two Aspects of Metapoetic Imagery in Catullus, Vergil and Horace

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Poetic waters: a key Hellenistic text

6.3 Catullus 64 and the Argo: the primal epic voyage

6.4 The Georgics: the didactic voyage and an epic encounter

6.5 The Aeneid: epic voyages

6.6 Horace's Odes: how far can you go?

6.7 Conclusion

7 Prophetic, Poetic and Political Ambiguity in Vergil, Eclogue 4

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Eclogue 4: contexts

7.3 Possible ambiguities in the poem.

7.3.1 Sicily and the consulship

7.3.2 Great ancestry and divine destiny

7.3.3 Historic deeds

7.3.4 Heroic expeditions

7.3.5 Divine links and future distinguished career

7.4 Conclusion

8 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy: Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Sibylline prophecy: the Greek tradition from Greece to Rome

3.3 'Sibylline' features in Eclogue 4

8.4 The Sibyl's own prophecy (Aeneid 6.83-95)

8.5 Jupiter's prophecy to Venus (Aeneid 1.261-96)

8.6 Anchises' prophecy (Aeneid 6.756-859)

8.7 Conclusion

9 Force, Frequency and Focalisation: The Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Overall narrative structure of Aeneid 10

9.3 Strategies of variation

9.4 Catalogue of similes

9.5 Distribution of similes between scenes

9.6 Some individual similes and their narrative functions

9.7 Conclusion

10 Serial Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil's Aeneid

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Homer, Ennius, Vergil: myth, history and the epic tradition

10.3 Homer, Apollonius and Vergil (1): a trace of civil war?

10.4 Homer, Apollonius and Vergil (2): a road not taken?

10.5 From Homer to Vergil via lyric and sexuality

10.6 Conclusion

11 Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas' Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Vergil, Aeneid 2

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Aeneas as narrator and tragic messenger

11.3 Narrators and narratees

11.3.1 The secondary internal narrator: Aeneas

11.3.2 The primary external poet-narrator

11.3.3 The principal internal narratee: Dido

11.3.4 Other narratees

11.3.5 The primary external narratee: the Augustan and later reader

11.4 Conclusion

12 Vergil's Metapoetic Katabasis: The Underworld of Aeneid 6 and the History of Epic

12.1 Introduction.

12.2 The gates of the Underworld (6.273-89): allegories and monsters

12.3 The Lugentes Campi (6.440-547)

12.4 Tartarus (6.580-628)

12.5 Elysium (6.648-68)

12.6 Anchises' cosmology (6.724-31)

12.7 The Show of Heroes (6.736-892)

12.8 Conclusion

13 Sermones deorum: Divine Discourse in Vergil's Aeneid

13.1 Introduction

13.2 'Colloquialism' in the Aeneid

13.3 Venus and Jupiter (Aeneid 1.227-97)

13.4 Juno and Venus (Aeneid 4.90-128)

13.5 Jupiter, Juno and Venus (Aeneid 10.1-116)

13.6 Jupiter and Juno (Aeneid 12.791-842)

13.7 Conclusion

14 Hercules and Augustus in Propertius 4.9

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Propertius 4.9 and Augustus' return to Rome in 19 BCE: history and topography

14.3 Issues of tone: comedy and encomium?

14.4 Augustan closure: 4.9, 4.10, 4.11

15 Framing Epigrams and Elegy in Propertius Book 4

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Propertius 4.2

15.3 Propertius 4.5

15.4 Propertius 4.11

15.5 Conclusion

16 The Chronology of Ovid's Poetic Career

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Agreed chronology

16.3 Issues in the dating of Ovid's pre-exilic poetic works

16.3.1 The second edition of the Amores

16.3.2 Heroides 1-15

16.3.3 The first edition of the Amores

16.3.4 The lost tragedy Medea

16.3.5 The remaining elegiac works

16.3.6 The second edition of the Amores and a possible collected works of love-elegy

16.4 Exilic traces

16.4.1 Revision of Fasti

16.4.2 Revision of Metamorphoses

16.4.3 Heroides 16-21

16.4.4 Phantom exile poems

16.5 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index Locorum.

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ISBN:

3-11-167912-8

OCLC:

1569922869