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. |
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Contents
and Their Readers | 1 |
Inuentio The Rediscovery of | 33 |
Cultures A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society | 63 |
Prooemium The Poet and His Reader The Iliad | 75 |
Narratio Aeneas Account of his Flight | 90 |
Inuentio I Virgils View of History in the Catalogue | 99 |
Inuentio II Turnus a Tragic Hero? Virgil | 120 |
Elocutio I Virgils Similes and the Genesis of | 129 |
The Thrill of a First Experience | 209 |
of the Present Participle | 251 |
The Futility of Rhetoric Achilles under the Spell | 277 |
Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality Proserpinas | 317 |
Transformation of Epic Imagery | 329 |
341 | |
Periodicals and Standard Works | 361 |
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Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Anchises Anius Apollo Arachne aspects atque Augustus Bacchus Blänsdorf Book Caesar Ceres character Cicero Classical Claudian compared context Corippus Dido divine elements Elocutio emotional Emperor Ennius epic poets epic simile epic tradition eyes fact final genre Georgics gives goddess gods Greek Hector Hellenistic heroes historic perfect historic present Homer idea Iliad illa important intertextuality introduction Io's Juno Juno's Jupiter Latin epic lines literary Livius Andronicus Lucan Lycomedes mentioned Metamorphoses Morel motif myth Naevius narrative Odyssey Orpheus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Oxford Pallas paragraph parallel participles passage pietas Pluto poetic poetry Proserpina Punica quae quoted reader reflects reminiscent rhetoric role Roman epic Rome scene Scipio sentence Silius Italicus simile speech spondees Statius story stress structure style technique tenses theme Thetis Translation Trojan Troy Turnus Valerius Flaccus Venus Virgil Virgilian word
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The Sites of Rome:Time, Space, Memory: Time, Space, Memory David H. J. Larmour,Diana Spencer No preview available - 2007 |