Middles in Latin PoetryΣτρατής Κυριακίδης, Francesco De Martino |
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... poem with its particular position within the collection serves a poetic purpose . In other words , although each individual poem retains its independence , its specific placement within a series of poems always carries an underlying ...
... poem with its particular position within the collection serves a poetic purpose . In other words , although each individual poem retains its independence , its specific placement within a series of poems always carries an underlying ...
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... poem . A spatial analysis shows that the bed and its coverlet which is located sedibus in mediis ( in the midst of the palace , 48 ) in the palace at Pharsalus where the wedding of Peleus and Thetis takes place , become the spatial ...
... poem . A spatial analysis shows that the bed and its coverlet which is located sedibus in mediis ( in the midst of the palace , 48 ) in the palace at Pharsalus where the wedding of Peleus and Thetis takes place , become the spatial ...
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... Poem 4 breaks the Delia sequence with the introduction of the theme of homosexual love , to be developed in the second half of the book in poems 8 and 9. Poem 5 marks the conclusion of the first half of the book and in some ways can be ...
... Poem 4 breaks the Delia sequence with the introduction of the theme of homosexual love , to be developed in the second half of the book in poems 8 and 9. Poem 5 marks the conclusion of the first half of the book and in some ways can be ...
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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