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Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on topics in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature, and modernist literature.

Drawing together a range of examples, this volume explores the tombs of the ancient poets - real or otherwise - in the ancient cultural imagination, and the ways in which they act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry, uniquely positioned as they are between literary reception and material culture.

Shaggy Crowns is the first book-length study in almost a hundred years of the relationship between Rome's two great epic poems. Quintus Ennius was once the monumental epic poet of Republican Rome, "the father of Roman poetry." However, around one hundred and fifty years after his epic Annales first appeared, it was replaced decisively by Virgil's Aeneid, and now survives only in fragments.
Looking at the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers the relationship between Rome's two great canonical epics. She focuses on how -- in...