Roman Epic: An Interpretative IntroductionThe author's approach to Roman epic is interpretative; the reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of Antiquity. Famous poets are given the attention they deserve, but also some minor authors are discovered as precious 'missing links' between the ages. Special heed is paid to intertextual relationships between different epochs, cultures, literary genres, linguistic and literary patterns. The book is meant for students and teachers of classical and modern literatures, but also for all those interested in the history of literary genres and cultural ideas. |
Contents
and Their Readers | 1 |
Inuentio The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language | 33 |
Dispositio The Clash of Myth and History | 45 |
Elocutio A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society | 63 |
CONTENTS | 64 |
Prooemium The Poet and His Reader The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid | 75 |
Narratio Aeneas Account of his Flight | 90 |
Inuentio I Virgils View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes Aen 6 679899 | 99 |
of the Present Participle | 251 |
The Futility of Rhetoric Achilles under the Spell | 277 |
1 | 292 |
33 | 311 |
45 | 312 |
Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality Proserpinas | 317 |
63 | 321 |
Transformation of Epic Imagery | 329 |
Inuentio II Turnus a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle 7 Elocutio II On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid | 120 |
Dispositio Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence | 123 |
Elocutio I Virgils Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid | 129 |
Inuentio Ovid and His Readers | 143 |
Prooemium Ovids Arachne and Human Creativity | 153 |
Elocutio Similes in Ovids Metamorphoses and Their Functions | 166 |
Clash of Genres Gods and Religion in Ovids Meta morphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy | 177 |
Clash of Systems of Values The Daughters of Anius | 197 |
Elocutio and Defamiliarization The Thrill of a First Experience | 209 |
Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory | 217 |
The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric | 227 |
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Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid alliteration appears aspects becomes beginning Book called chapter character Classical Claudian compared consider context Corippus death described Dido divine elements Ennius epic especially example expression eyes fact father final Flaccus given gives goddess gods Greek hand helps heroes historical Homer human idea Iliad important intertextuality introduction invention Italy Juno Jupiter language later Latin less lines literary look Lucan means mentioned Metamorphoses myth Naevius narrative nature observed once Ovid Ovid's paragraph parallel passage perfect poet poetic poetry present quoted reader reference reflects rhetoric Roman Rome scene seems sense sentence shows Silius simile speech Statius story stress structure style tenses theme thought tradition Translation turn Valerius Venus Virgil
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Roman Epic: An Interpretative Introduction Volume 189 of Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Volume 189 of Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. 189: Supplementum Volume 189 of Mnemosyne: Supplementum |
| Author | Michael Von Albrecht |
| Publisher | BRILL, 1999 |
| ISBN | 9004112928, 9789004112926 |
| Length | 371 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Interior Design / General History / Ancient / General Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical |
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