Clio and the Poets

Clio and the Poets

Author: David Levene

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9047400496

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In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on — or reacted against — historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians transformed poetic themes for their own ends.