Middles in Latin PoetryΣτρατής Κυριακίδης, Francesco De Martino |
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... close contact of ether " with earth is enhanced by the phrase avido complexu with which Lucretius describes the tight embrace of ether over the world ( 2.1066 , 5.470 ) . One may also see this complexus carried forward analogically from ...
... close contact of ether " with earth is enhanced by the phrase avido complexu with which Lucretius describes the tight embrace of ether over the world ( 2.1066 , 5.470 ) . One may also see this complexus carried forward analogically from ...
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... close to suffering defeat , a fate averted only by Pompey's lack of initiative , could indeed cast the latter in the role of the " ethical hero " whose defeat resulted from a high - minded refusal to seize the advantage which Durrachium ...
... close to suffering defeat , a fate averted only by Pompey's lack of initiative , could indeed cast the latter in the role of the " ethical hero " whose defeat resulted from a high - minded refusal to seize the advantage which Durrachium ...
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... close to being the ' mathematical ' middle of the epic , " be it seventeen or eighteen books long . For Feeney , Punica 9 is the poem's centre , about which the other sixteen books pivot.62 While this analysis is both formally plausible ...
... close to being the ' mathematical ' middle of the epic , " be it seventeen or eighteen books long . For Feeney , Punica 9 is the poem's centre , about which the other sixteen books pivot.62 While this analysis is both formally plausible ...
Contents
List of Contributors pp | 7 |
Stratis Kyriakidis and Francesco De Martino Introduction 99 | 9 |
Philip Hardie Don Fowler and Middles 99 | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Aeneid allusion already Apollonius appears Asopus battle becomes beginning Book bring Caesar Callimachus catalogue Catullus central centre civil clear close closure comes connection contrast course coverlet create death delay describes discussion earlier epic epigram example fact final forces Fowler Francesco De Martino further gives gods Greek Homeric human important indicates instance kind later Latin lines literary look Lucan Lucretius marked Martial meaning mention Metamorphoses middle mind Muses narrative nature Odes opening Ovid Ovid's particular passage perhaps Persius poem poem's poet poetic poetry position present proem Punica reader recalls reference relation river Roman Rome scene second half seems seen sense significance Silius stanzas Statius story structure suggests Theb Thebaid thematic theme Theseus things Tibullus tradition turn Valerius Venus verses Virgil Virgilian whole