UID:
almahu_9949702053902882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 396 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789047400493
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 224
Content:
The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or reacted against - the historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace's Odes to Ovid's Metamorphoses , on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history.
Note:
Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999.
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Preliminary Material --
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CLIO EXCLUSA /
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PROPERTIUS THE HISTORIAN (3.3.1-12)? /
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ACTIUM AND TEUTOBURG: AUGUSTAN VICTORY AND DEFEAT IN VERGIL AND TACITUS /
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STEPPING OUT OF THE RING: REPETITION AND SACRIFICE IN THE BOXING MATCH IN AENEID 5 /
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ARCHAISM AND HISTORICISM IN HORACE'S ODES /
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AB INFERIS: HISTORIOGRAPHY IN HORACE'S ODES /
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VERGIL'S ITALY: ETHNOGRAPHY AND POLITICS IN FIRST-CENTURY ROME /
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ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN VERGIL'S ARCADIA (VERGIL ECLOGUE 4; AENEID 8; LIVY 1.7) /
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OVID'S METAMORPHOSES AND UNIVERSAL HISTORY /
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THE HISTORIAN IN OVID. THE ROMAN HISTORY OF METAMORPHOSES 14-15 /
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THE ALBAN KINGS IN THE METAMORPHOSES: AN OVIDIAN CATALOGUE AND ITS HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MODELS /
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THE FALL OF TROY: BETWEEN TRADITION AND GENRE /
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EPIC ENCOUNTERS? ANCIENT HISTORICAL BATTLE NARRATIVES AND THE EPIC TRADITION /
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THE STRUCTURE OF LIVY'S FIRST PENTAD AND THE AUGUSTAN POETRY BOOK /
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A VARRONIAN VATIC NUMA?: OVID'S FASTI AND PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF NUMA /
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THE EXTINCTION OF THE POTITII AND THE SACRED HISTORY OF AUGUSTAN ROME /
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HISTORY, POETRY, AND ANNALES /
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED --
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GENERAL INDEX --
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS --
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SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Clio and the poets. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002 ISBN 9004117822
Language:
English
Keywords:
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
