Middles in Latin PoetryΣτρατής Κυριακίδης, Francesco De Martino |
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... gods from foreign altars . Following this opening statement , Lucan provides many examples of magic forcing the gods to act against their will : Jupiter , Phoebus - Apollo , Notus , Nilus , Maeander , Tethys , and Phoebe - Diana are ...
... gods from foreign altars . Following this opening statement , Lucan provides many examples of magic forcing the gods to act against their will : Jupiter , Phoebus - Apollo , Notus , Nilus , Maeander , Tethys , and Phoebe - Diana are ...
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... gods , or do these dictatorial chants have a particular god who can himself compel the cosmos to do whatever he is compelled himself to do ?. In these , Lucan asks why - rather than how - the gods allow the powers of magic to operate ...
... gods , or do these dictatorial chants have a particular god who can himself compel the cosmos to do whatever he is compelled himself to do ?. In these , Lucan asks why - rather than how - the gods allow the powers of magic to operate ...
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... gods in heaven , nor summons a help - bringing deity with suppliant chant nor does she recognise sacrificial entrails ) ; and 527-8 : omne nefas superi prima iam voce precantis / concedunt carmenque timent audire secundum ( The gods ...
... gods in heaven , nor summons a help - bringing deity with suppliant chant nor does she recognise sacrificial entrails ) ; and 527-8 : omne nefas superi prima iam voce precantis / concedunt carmenque timent audire secundum ( The gods ...
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