A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a particular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a foreword by Stephen Hinds.
A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a particular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a foreword by Stephen Hinds.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Denis Feeney is Giger Professor of Latin in the Department of Classics at Princeton University. His publications include The Gods in Epic (1991); Literature and Religion at Rome (Cambridge, 1998); Caesar's Calendar (2007); Beyond Greek (2016). He was also a Series Editor, with Stephen Hinds, of Roman Literature and its Contexts for Cambridge University Press. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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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.
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.
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