Middles in Latin PoetryΣτρατής Κυριακίδης, Francesco De Martino |
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... position in our body , located in the chest . It is on the basis of analogy that the ' body ' of the text may also be seen as a mundus with a beginning , a middle , and an end . In this mundus , the middle position is held by the proem ...
... position in our body , located in the chest . It is on the basis of analogy that the ' body ' of the text may also be seen as a mundus with a beginning , a middle , and an end . In this mundus , the middle position is held by the proem ...
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... 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 poetic intention . When the ...
... 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 poetic intention . When the ...
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... position and therefore with a clear and definite poetic function . To this suggestion we are led by the position of the proem within the whole work , and the structural changes Lucretius has made to the proem when compared with the ...
... position and therefore with a clear and definite poetic function . To this suggestion we are led by the position of the proem within the whole work , and the structural changes Lucretius has made to the proem when compared with the ...
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