Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Genre, Tradition and Individuality
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Genre, Tradition and Individuality
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How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Genre, Tradition and Individuality - Monica Gale
Part I: Framing Epics: Epic, Didactic and Related Genres
1. Getting the Measure of Heroes: The Dactylic Hexameter and Its Detractors - Llewelyn Morgan
2. Politian's Ambra and Reading Epic Didactically - Andrew Laird
3. The Story of Us: A Narratological Analysis of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Monica Gale
4. From Didactic to Epic: Georgics 2.458 - 3.48 - Damien Nelis
Part II: Genre and Tradition: Virgil and After
5. Virgil's Corycius Senex and Nicander's Georgica: Georgics 4.116-148 - Stephen Harrison
6. Tradition and Originality: Allusion in Valerius Flaccus' Lemnian Episode - Ray Clare
7. The Repetitions of Hypsipyle - Bruce Gibson
8. Claudian: The Epic Poet in the Prefaces - Catherine Ware
Part III: Receptions: Reinventing Classical Epic
9. Approaching Christian Epic: The Preface of Juvencus - Roger Green
10. Virgilian Imperialism, Original Sin and Fracastoro's Syphilis - Philip Hardie
11. The Aeneid and Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry - Ceri Davies
Index Locorum
General Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Genre, Tradition and Individuality - Monica Gale
Part I: Framing Epics: Epic, Didactic and Related Genres
1. Getting the Measure of Heroes: The Dactylic Hexameter and Its Detractors - Llewelyn Morgan
2. Politian's Ambra and Reading Epic Didactically - Andrew Laird
3. The Story of Us: A Narratological Analysis of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Monica Gale
4. From Didactic to Epic: Georgics 2.458 - 3.48 - Damien Nelis
Part II: Genre and Tradition: Virgil and After
5. Virgil's Corycius Senex and Nicander's Georgica: Georgics 4.116-148 - Stephen Harrison
6. Tradition and Originality: Allusion in Valerius Flaccus' Lemnian Episode - Ray Clare
7. The Repetitions of Hypsipyle - Bruce Gibson
8. Claudian: The Epic Poet in the Prefaces - Catherine Ware
Part III: Receptions: Reinventing Classical Epic
9. Approaching Christian Epic: The Preface of Juvencus - Roger Green
10. Virgilian Imperialism, Original Sin and Fracastoro's Syphilis - Philip Hardie
11. The Aeneid and Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry - Ceri Davies
Index Locorum
General Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Dec 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 262 |
| ISBN | 9780954384562 |
| Imprint | Classical Press of Wales |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | The Classical Press of Wales |
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