K. Sara Myers

Ancient Roman Literary Gardens (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers examines the function and representation of garden descriptions in the work of a broad range of Roman authors, such as Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Varro, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Columella, Statius, and Pliny the Elder and Younger.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197773222
• Artikelnr.: 72248386

Autorenporträt

K. Sara Myers is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and the author of Ovid's Causes and a commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses 14.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Gardens, Gender, Genre, Geopoetics
* Chapter 1: Masculine Horticultural Self-Fashioning: Hard and Soft
Labor
* Chapter 2: Vergil's Garden (Georgics 4.116-48): A Literary Paradigm
* Chapter 3: Women in the Garden: Catullus, Ovid, and the Greek Poetic
Tradition
* Chapter 4: Trampling in the Garden: Satiric Verse and Epigram
* Chapter 5: Columella and the Poetics of Horticulture
* Conclusion and Epilogue