Cinna the Poet : Appropriation and Innovation in Late Republican Rome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busti, Francesco.

Series:

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation Series

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation Series ; v.15

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

This book examines the life and works of Catullus' friend and fellow poet Gaius Helvius Cinna (d.44 BCE) within the context of Rome's expansion.Far from being a learned imitation of remote foreign sources, Cinna's poetry engaged profoundly with the political contingencies of his time.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 To This Book's Methodology

2 To This Book's Subject

3 To This Book's Structure

Chapter 1 The Willow Groves of the Genumani

1 The "Romanisation" of the Cenomani

2 The Transpadane Cinna

3 A Dialogue with Ennius

4 A Change of Scenery

5 Bestowing Citizenship on Foreign Words

Chapter 2 A Boat of Prusias

1 Two Booklets

2 A Small Boat of Prusias

3 Bithynia and the Third Mithridatic War

4 Cinna in Bithynia

5 Processes of Appropriation

Chapter 3 The Morning Star and the Evening Star

1 The Zmyrna

2 Time and Space

3 From the East …

4 … to the West

5 Catull. 10

6 Catull. 95

7 Aetiology

Chapter 4 Huge Piles of Offerings

1 The Propempticon Pollionis

2 Decentring Delphi

3 From Rome to the East and Back with Plunder

4 A Propempticon Ciceronis?

Epilogue: Cinna the Poet (and the Politician)

1 "I am Cinna the Poet, I am Cinna the Poet"

2 Xylander's Divination

3 The Sources

4 The Debate

5 Ov. Ib. 539-40

6 A Poet and a Politician

Conclusion

Appendix

Works Cited

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789004766471