There has long been vital interest in the ways that texts affect each other--through translation, imitation, parody, and other forms of emulation and subversion. Throughout the last two millennia, the Virgilian text has created its own intertextual heritage, persisting in the works of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Heaney. Richard F. Thomas's new volume demonstrates that such control and manipulation of the inherited tradition is to be found with great intensity in the very author who, in turn, created his own complex tradition.
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This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat...

Volume 98 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology offers the following contributions: Miles C. Beckwith, The 'Hanging of Hera' and the Meaning of akmon; Mary Depew, Delian Hymns and Callimachean Allusion; Andrew Dyck, Narrative Obfuscation, Philosophical Topoi, and Tragic Patterning in Cicero's Pro Milone; Joseph Farrell, Reading and Writing the Heroides; Rolando Ferri, Octavia's Heroines: Tacitus Annales 14.63-64 and Praetexta Octavia; Aryeh Finkelberg On the History of the kosmos; Joshua T. Katz, Testimonia Ritus Italici Male Genitalia, Solemn Declarations, and a New Latin Sound Law;...

This volume on classical philology includes, among others, the following contributions: Francis Cairns, Virgil Eclogue 1.1-2: A literary Program?; John Hunt, Readings in Apollonius of Tyre; Alexander Jones, Geminus and the Isia; and Peter Knox Lucretius on the Narrow Road.

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat...

The Carmen Saeculare was composed and published in 17 BCE as Horace was returning to the genre of lyric which he had abandoned six years earlier; the fourth book of Odes is in part a response to this poem, the only commissioned poem we know from the period. The hardening of the political situation, with the Republic a thing of the past and the Augustan succession in the air, threw the problematic issue of praise into fresh relief, and at the same time provided an impulse towards the nostalgia represented by the poet's private world. Professor Thomas provides an introduction and commentary...

This volume includes: Jose Marcos Macedo, "Zeus as (Rider of) Thunderbolt"; Hayden Pelliccia, "The Violation of Wackernagel's Law at Pindar, Pythian 3.1"; Robert Mayhew, "A Note on Aristotle] Problemata 26.61"; Sam Hitchings, "The Date of Demosthenes] XVII On The Treaty With Alexander"; Maria Pavlou "Lieux de Memoire in the Plataean Speech"; John Walsh, "A Note on Diodorus 18.11.1, Arybbas and the Lamian War"; Loukas Papadimitropoulou "Charicleia's Identity and the Structure of Heliodorus' Aethiopica"; John Heath, "Corinna's 'Old Wives' Tales'"; Ian Goh,...

This volume includes James Adams, "The Latin of the Magerius Mosaic"; Graeme Bourke, "Classical Sophism and Philosophy in Pseudo-Plutarch On the Training of Children"; Eleanor Cowan, "Caesar's One Fatal Wound: Suetonius Div. Iul. 82.3"; Christopher Eckerman, "Catullus' Bacchylides and His Muses in Carmen 61"; Lowell Edmunds, "Pliny the Younger on His Verse and Martial's Non-Recognition of Pliny as a Poet"; Lucia Floridi, "The Construction of a Homoerotic Discourse in the Epigrams of Ausonius"; Benjamin Garstad, "Rome in the Alexander Romance"; Alexi Grishin, "A Nominal...