Harrison Roman Readings: Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Ovid

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-167929-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 188, 239 Seiten

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This volume collects seventeen pieces on the classical Latin poetry of the late Republican and Augustan period written and published since 2000. They share a common interest in the close reading of poems, with a particular focus on the issues of genre, intertextuality, poetic unity, political allusion, imagery and literary history.

Topics treated include the proem to Lucretius I and its relation to Ennian models, issues of unity and interpretation in five poems of Catullus. On Vergil there are two studies of the similes of the Aeneid, one of Aeneas' narrative in Aeneid 2, one of Aeneid 6 as a journey into the epic past, one of Sibylline elements in the Aeneid and one of the language used by the Aeneid's gods, plus a new contribution to the old issue of the identity of the child in Eclogue 4. On Propertius, there are accounts of 4.9 and its contemporary political significance, and of how some other elegies in Book 4 function as expanded epigrams. The chapter on Ovid looks at the chronology and shape of his literary career.

Taken together, these pieces seek to present these central texts of Roman poetry for modern literary study by scholars and advanced students.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Latin poetry, university students at graduate and und

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Leseproben

Contents

• Preface

• List of Original Places of Publication

• Part A: Late Republican Poetry

  • 1 Ennius and the Prologue to Lucretius, DRN 1 (1.1–148)

    • 1.1 Literary programme: emphasising Ennius

    • 1.2 The tragic touch: the Ennian Iphigenia?

    • 1.3 The structure of the proem

      • 1.3.1 Order from chaos?

      • 1.3.2 Programmatic effects: Epicurus outdoes Ennius?

    • 1.4 Conclusion

      • [Additional note, July 2002]

  • 2 Issues of Unity in Catullus 2 and Catullus 51

    • 2.1 Catullus 2 and 2b

    • 2.2 Catullus 51

  • 3 Altering Attis: Ethnicity, Gender and Genre in Catullus 63

    • 3.1 Ethnicity: The Eastern and the Western Attis

    • 3.2 Gender: Attis as Agave, Attis as Medea

    • 3.3 Genre: Literary affinities of Catullus 63

    • 3.4 Conclusion

  • 4 Catullus 1: Book and Boy?

    • 4.1 Introduction

    • 4.2 Book and boy

    • 4.3 Nepos as mentor

    • 4.4 Conclusion

  • 5 Catullus 4: Greek Epigram and Miniaturised Greek Epic

    • 5.1 Introduction: the neoteric poets and their Greek heritage

    • 5.2 Text

    • 5.3 Textual and metrical issues

    • 5.4 Literary form: epigrammatic traces

    • 5.5 Literary history and topography: Catullus’ mini-Argo

    • 5.6 The size of the phaselus: physical and poetic aspects

      • 5.6.1 Physical size and representation

      • 5.6.2 Poetic size and genre

    • 5.7 Conclusion

• Part B: Augustan Poetry

  • 6 The Primal Voyage and the Ocean of Epos: Two Aspects of Metapoetic Imagery in Catullus, Vergil and Horace

    • 6.1 Introduction

    • 6.2 Poetic waters: a key Hellenistic text

    • 6.3 Catullus 64 and the Argo: the primal epic voyage

    • 6.4 The Georgics: the didactic voyage and an epic encounter

    • 6.5 The Aeneid: epic voyages

    • 6.6 Horace’s Odes: how far can you go?

    • 6.7 Conclusion

  • 7 Prophetic, Poetic and Political Ambiguity in Vergil, Eclogue 4

    • 7.1 Introduction

    • 7.2 Eclogue 4: contexts

    • 7.3 Possible ambiguities in the poem

      • 7.3.1 Sicily and the consulship

      • 7.3.2 Great ancestry and divine destiny

      • 7.3.3 Historic deeds

      • 7.3.4 Heroic expeditions

      • 7.3.5 Divine links and future distinguished career

      • 7.4 Conclusion

  • 8 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy: Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid

    • 8.1 Introduction

    • 8.2 Sibylline prophecy: the Greek tradition from Greece to Rome

    • 8.3 ‘Sibylline’ features in Eclogue 4

    • 8.4 The Sibyl’s own prophecy (Aeneid 6.83–95)

    • 8.5 Jupiter’s prophecy to Venus (Aeneid 1.261–96)

    • 8.6 Anchises’ prophecy (Aeneid 6.756–859)

    • 8.7 Conclusion

  • 9 Force, Frequency and Focalisation: The Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10

    • 9.1 Introduction

    • 9.2 Overall narrative structure of Aeneid 10

    • 9.3 Strategies of variation

    • 9.4 Catalogue of similes

    • 9.5 Distribution of similes between scenes

    • 9.6 Some individual similes and their narrative functions

    • 9.7 Conclusion

  • 10 Serial Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil’s Aeneid

    • 10.1 Introduction

    • 10.2 Homer, Ennius, Vergil: myth, history and the epic tradition

    • 10.3 Homer, Apollonius and Vergil (1): a trace of civil war?

    • 10.4 Homer, Apollonius and Vergil (2): a road not taken?

    • 10.5 From Homer to Vergil via lyric and sexuality

    • 10.6 Conclusion

  • 11 Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas’ Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Vergil, Aeneid 2

    • 11.1 Introduction

    • 11.2 Aeneas as narrator and tragic messenger

    • 11.3 Narrators and narratees

      • 11.3.1 The secondary internal narrator: Aeneas

      • 11.3.2 The primary external poet-narrator

      • 11.3.3 The principal internal narratee: Dido

      • 11.3.4 Other narratees

      • 11.3.5 The primary external narratee: the Augustan and later reader

    • 11.4 Conclusion

  • 12 Vergil’s Metapoetic Katabasis: The Underworld of Aeneid 6 and the History of Epic

    • 12.1 Introduction

    • 12.2 The gates of the Underworld (6.273–89): allegories and monsters

    • 12.3 The Lugentes Campi (6.440–547)

    • 12.4 Tartarus (6.580–628)

    • 12.5 Elysium (6.648–68)

    • 12.6 Anchises’...

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.