Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics From Horace to Silius Italicus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics From Horace to Silius Italicus 1
4. Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos … Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)? 13
5. Nominal Intelligence: Conspiracy, Prosopography, and the Secret of Horace, Odes 2.10 37
6. Another Vergilian Signature in the Georgics? 69
7. Mora in the Aeneid 87
8. Dido and the Owl 107
9. Freudian Bullseyes in Classical Perspective: The Psycholinguistics of Guilt in Virgil’s Aeneid 131
10. Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus 151
11. Violent Retribution and Pietas: The Closure of the Aeneid Revisited 169
12. Freedom of Speech in Virgil and Ovid 183
13. Love’s Letters: an Amor-Roma Telestich at Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.507–10 199
14. Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid 213
15. Pythagoras and Numa in Ovid: Exile and Immortality at Rome 241
16. Lucan’s Caesar and Laelius 259
17. A Theory of Violence in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile 273
18. From Pastoral to Panegyric in Calpurnius Siculus 299
19. Speaking Names in Senecan Drama 313
20. Civil War, the Soul, and the Cosmos at Seneca, Thyestes 547–622: A Tropology 333
21. Doubtful Certainties: The Politics of Reading in Seneca’s Oedipus 355
22. Doubting Domitian’s Divinity: Statius Achilleid 1.1–2 377
23. As if: Reflections on an Exemplary Wife 387
24. Silius Italicus and Greek Epic: Imperial Culture Wars 413
25. List of Contributors 437
26. Publications by Frederick Ahl 443
27. Index of passages discussed 445
28. General Index 449