Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography, Religion

ISBN-13: 9781108741538 / Miękka / 2023 / 443 str.

New Jersey) Feeney Denis (Princeton University

Opis

A collection of all the major papers by a leading Latinist, on key ancient genres and theoretical issues.

Recenzje

'… its exquisite prose; its generosity to the community of scholarship that it engages; its extraordinary vision of Vergil as fearlessly human - made me want to be a different sort of reader than I had been theretofore … I recommend it to all.' Clifford Ando, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The taciturnity of Aeneas; 2. The reconciliations of Juno; 3. Epic hero and epic fable; 4. Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the greatness of Pompeius Magnus; 5. History and revelation in Virgil's underworld; 6. Following after Hercules, in Apollonius and Virgil; 7. Beginning Sallust's Catiline; 8. Leaving Dido: the appearance(s) of Mercury and the motivations of Aeneas; 9. Epic violence, epic order: killings, catalogues, and the role of the reader in Aeneid 10; 10. Mea tempora: patterning of time in Ovid's Metamorphoses; 11. Interpreting sacrificial ritual in Roman poetry: disciplines and their models; 12. Tenui…latens discrimine: spotting the differences in Statius' Achilleid; 13. On not forgetting the 'Literatur' in 'Literatur und Religion'; 14. Virgil's tale of four cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome; 15. First similes in epic; 16. Fictions of citizenship in Livy's History.