Comedy and Elegy in Calpurnian Pastoral: ‘Generic Interplays’ in Calp. 3

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. General
6. Genre and Super-Genre 19
7. The (Dis)continuity of Genre: A Comment on the Romans and the Greeks 35
8. Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry 55
9. Hypertexts and Auxiliary Texts: New Genres in Late Antiquity? 79
10. Epic and Didactic
11. The Genre of Cicero’s De consulatu suo 93
12. Fear and Loathing in Lucretius: Latent Tragedy and Anti-Allusion in DRN 3 113
13. Lucan and Caesar: Epic and Commentarius 135
14. Achilles and the improba virgo 151
15. Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae 169
16. Shepherds’ Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic 193
17. Pastoral
18. Too Much Semiotics will Spoil the Genre 205
19. Virgil’s Eclogue 4.60–3: A Space of Generic Enrichment 217
20. Comedy and Elegy in Calpurnian Pastoral: ‘Generic Interplays’ in Calp. 3 231
21. Other Poetic Genres
22. Transformations of Paraclausithyron in Plautus’ Curculio 267
23. The Invention of Satire: A Paradigmatic Case? 283
24. The Afterlife of Varro in Horace’s Sermones 297
25. One Verse of Mimnermus? 337
26. The Poet’s Afterlife: Ovid between Epic and Elegy 351
27. Didactic and Lyric in Horace Odes 2: Lucretius and Vergil 367
28. Prose
29. Letters into Autobiography: The Generic Mobility of the Ancient Letter Collection 387
30. Is historia a Genre? 417
31. Tacitean Fusion: Tiberius the Satirist? 433
32. Apollonius King of Tyre: Between Novel and New Comedy 449
33. Notes on Contributors 455
34. Index Locorum 461
35. General Index 471