Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 953 g
Selected Papers on Virgil and Rome
Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 953 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-886386-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A number of Horsfall's papers, including the important 'Camilla', are translated in this volume for the first time.
Stretching from 1971 to 2015, the papers are drawn from his entire output demonstrating his unparalleled ability to connect Roman poetry with history, antiquarianism, and Realien. While showcasing his unique analysis of Virgil, it also highlights Horsfall's work as both a Latinist and a Romanist, illuminating the coherence in his approach. This volume includes many Virgilian papers that have become classics--on Aeneas the colonist, and on the Aeneas-legend, for example. This does not detract from the value of the non-Virgilian papers, many of which--on the collegium poetarum, and on discussions of reading and libraries at Rome, for example--have become standard treatments of their subjects. Throughout all these works there is an astonishing degree of connection, with glimpses in many papers of his other research interests.
'Nicholas Horsfall needs to be approached through his short papers, typically fresh, innovative and stimulating, and he has been so productive that nobody can claim to have had a full view of his scholarship. When it comes to placing a literary text in the frames offered by material culture, documents, landscapes, history, and by religious, legal, military and antiquarian studies, he was unrivalled.' Professor Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, New York University.
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- Abbreviations
- 1: Numanus Remulus: ethnography and propaganda in Aen. 9.598ff.
- 2: Dido in the light of history
- 3: Turnus ad portas
- 4: Virgil's Roman chronography: a reconsideration
- 5: The collegium poetarum
- 6: Virgil, history and the Roman tradition
- 7: Some problems in the Aeneas-legend
- 8: Doctus sermones utriusque linguae?
- 9: Virgil, Varro s Imagines and the Forum of Augustus
- 10: From history to legend: Manlius and the geese
- 11: Some problems of titulature in Roman literary history
- 12: Virgil and the conquest of chaos
- 13: The structure and purpose of Virgil s parade of heroes
- 14: The Caudine forks: topography and illusion
- 15: Illusion and reality in Latin topographical writing
- 16: The Aeneas-legend and the Aeneid
- 17: Non uiribus aequis: some problems in Virgil s battle-scenes
- 18: Camilla, or the limits of invention
- 19: The Uses of Literacy and the Cena Trimalchionis
- 20: Chloreus' trousers
- 21: Barbara tegmina crurum
- 22: Aeneas the colonist
- 23: Virgil and the illusory footnote
- 24: Externi duces
- 25: The Aeneid and the social structures of primitive Italy
- 26: Virgil and the poetry of explanations
- 27: Empty shelves on the Palatine
- 28: Cicero and poetry: the place of prejudice in literary history
- 29: The prehistory of Latin poetry: some problems of method
- 30: Rome without spectacles
- 31: The cultural horizons of the Plebs Romana ( MAAR (1996) 101 118)
- 32: The geography of the Georgics
- 33: The unity of Roman Italy: some anomalies
- 34: The unity of Roman Italy: anomalies in context
- 35: The legionary as his own historian
- 36: The Moretum decomposed
- 37: Fraud as scholarship: the Helen Episode and the Appendix Vergiliana
- 38: Excudent alii
- 39: Virgil and the Jews
- 40: Poets and poetry in Virgil's Underworld
- 41: Exempla in Virgil's Underworld
- 42: The poetics of toponymy
- Nicholas Horsfall, a bibliography
- Index
