Erik Pugh Fredericksen

The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

"Brings together environmental literary criticism and classics, generating new readings of foundational works of Augustan literature as environmental poetry. For classicists, it discloses new aspects of familiar texts, while for environmental literary critics it deepens and complicates the traditions and concepts of environmental literature"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009476171
• ISBN-10: 1009476173
• Artikelnr.: 70349818

Autorenporträt

ERIK FREDERICKSEN holds a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University. He has published various articles on Latin and Greek literature and their receptions in modern and contemporary poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Local dwelling and pastoral place in Vergil's Eclogues
2. The local environments and more-than-human music of the Eclogues
3. Vergil's ecological poem
4. Poetry of place and planet: Fractal locality in Vergil's Georgics
5. Natures and the nonhuman in Horace's Odes
6. Translocal lyric: Horace's Odes and the poetry of place
Epilogue: Ovid in exile and Augustan environmental poetry.