Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid
Author: Stratēs Kyriakidēs
Publisher: Levante
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
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Memory in Vergil's Aeneid
Author: Aaron M. Seider
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-12
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 110703180X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.
Clio and the Poets
Author: David Levene
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9047400496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome
Author: Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-11
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1108529917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals. This book illuminates Roman subjects' vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets' sustained exploration of audiences' active part in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome's evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike.
Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace
Author: S. J. Harrison
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 995
ISBN-13: 0191615900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKS. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.
Virgil, "Aeneid" 6
Author: Nicholas Horsfall
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 3110229919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking “in the shadow of Eduard Norden” in the author’s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall’s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators’ commentator writing with encyclopedic command of Virgilian scholarship for the most demanding reader. Volume One includes the introduction, text and translation, and bibliography, Volume Two includes the commentary, appendices, and indices.
A Companion to the Study of Virgil
Author: Nicholas Horsfall
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2000-08-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9789004119512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Companion to the Study of Virgil" is not yet another introduction to Virgil's poetry, nor is it the thinking man's version of the bibliographies in ANRW. The editor and three outside contributors offer a guide both to the key problems and to the most intelligent discussions. They do not offer 'solutions' to all the difficulties, but are not frightened to admit that "this" we do not know, that "that" is a mess, and that "there" more work is to be done. The book is aimed at graduate students and university teachers. Many of the issues are difficult and artificial simplifications seem to offer no advantages. Apart from ample discussion of the poems and the main issues they raise, the book offers chapters on the life of Virgil (Horsfall), his style (Horsfall), his influence on later Latin epic (W.R. Barnes), on Latin life and culture (Horsfall), and on his MS tradition (Geymonat).
Structures of Epic Poetry
Author: Christiane Reitz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 2760
ISBN-13: 3110492598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Virgil's Homeric Lens
Author: Edan Dekel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-01-25
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1136653805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the ways in which Virgil’s Aeneid uses Homer’s Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences.
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
Author: Charles McNelis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-08
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1139462911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions, he engages with Hellenistic poetic ideals as exemplified by Callimachus and the Roman Callimachean poets, especially Ovid. The result is a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the desire for delay and postponement of such conflict. Ultimately, Statius adheres to the mythic paradigm of the mutual fratricide, but he continues to employ competing strategies that call attention to the fictive nature of any project of closure and conciliation. In the process, the poem offers a new mode of epic closure that emphasises individual means of resolution.
