Middles in Latin PoetryΣτρατής Κυριακίδης, Francesco De Martino |
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... epic character onto the catalogue . Eventually , the catalogue of combatants closes in a Homeric way , and the crossing of the river Asopus takes place . According to McNelis , the crossing of the Asopus , with its obvious connotations ...
... epic character onto the catalogue . Eventually , the catalogue of combatants closes in a Homeric way , and the crossing of the river Asopus takes place . According to McNelis , the crossing of the Asopus , with its obvious connotations ...
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... epic via the structuring device of a medial proem is of course already found in Apollonius and Virgil . Valerius ' innovation is to develop the disjunctive or ' centrifugal ' potential of this kind of arrangement , in order to give ...
... epic via the structuring device of a medial proem is of course already found in Apollonius and Virgil . Valerius ' innovation is to develop the disjunctive or ' centrifugal ' potential of this kind of arrangement , in order to give ...
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... epic hero who will not submit ( epic ) arma to siege , but whose right hand fights in aggressive defence of ( epic ) moenia . As noted , the repetition of arma and its conjunction with viri in 12.168-9 has a particularly strong meta ...
... epic hero who will not submit ( epic ) arma to siege , but whose right hand fights in aggressive defence of ( epic ) moenia . As noted , the repetition of arma and its conjunction with viri in 12.168-9 has a particularly strong meta ...
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