Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient HistoriographyDavid Levene, Nelis The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on — or reacted against — the historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace’s Odes to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history. |
Contents
1 Clio exclusa | 1 |
2 Propertius the Historian 33112? | 25 |
Augustan Victory and Defeat in Vergil and Tacitus | 45 |
Repetition and Sacrifice in the Boxing Match in Aeneid 5 | 61 |
5 Archaism and Historicism in Horaces Odes | 81 |
Historiography in Horaces Odes | 103 |
Ethnography and Politics in Firstcentury Rome | 123 |
8 Roman Archaeology in Vergils Arcadia Vergil Eclogue 4 Aeneid 8 Livy 1 7 | 143 |
13 Epic Encounters? Ancient Historical Battle Narratives and the Epic Tradition | 253 |
14 The Structure of Livys First Pentad and the Augustan Poetry Book | 275 |
Ovids Fasti and Plutarchs Life of Numa | 291 |
16 The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of Augustan Rome | 313 |
17 History Poetry and Annates | 331 |
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Index of passages discussed | 381 |
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9 Ovids Metamorphoses and Universal History | 163 |
10 The Historian in Ovid The Roman History of Metamorphoses 1415 | 191 |
an Ovidian Catalogue and its Historiographical Models | 211 |
Between Tradition and Genre | 231 |
List of Contributors | 395 |
SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE | 397 |
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