Cinna the Poet : Appropriation and Innovation in Late Republican Rome / Francesco Busti, KU Leuven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busti, Francesco, author.

Leuven, KU, author.

Series:

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical Studies.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Appropriation and Innovation in Late Republican Rome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

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. Close readings of four nodes in Cinna’s corpus illustrate how Late Republican poetry contributed to the making of Rome into an empire. Appropriated lands, people and objects were converted into sources of literary capital, while the expanded literary repertoire provided a framework for further appropriation. Literature was anchored in conquest, and conquest in literature.

Contents:

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 To This Book’s Methodology

2 To This Book’s Subject

3 To This Book’s Structure

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

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

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

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

Maps

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004766471

OCLC:

1609259157

Publisher Number:

10./9789004766471 DOI