74 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. List of the Original Places of Publication XIII
5. List of Figures XIX
6. Part I: Virgil
7. 1 Atlas and Axis 1
8. 2 The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia: An Example of ‘Distribution’ of a Lucretian Theme in Virgil 16
9. 3 Cosmological Patterns in the Aeneid 26
10. 4 Aeneas and the Omen of the Swans (Verg. Aen. 1.393–400) 38
11. 5 Ships and Ship-names in the Aeneid 45
12. 6 The Aeneid and the Oresteia 56
13. 7 Virgil: A Paradoxical Poet? 71
14. 8 Another Look at Virgil’s Ganymede 87
15. 9 Political Education in Virgil’s Georgics 117
16. 10 Virgil’s Ptolemaic Relations 142
17. 11 Virgil’s Catullan Plots 166
18. 12 Trojan Palimpsests: The Archaeology of Roman History in Aeneid 2 194
19. 13 Dido and Lucretia 211
20. 14 Virgil and Tragedy 235
21. Part II: Reception and Translation of the Aeneid
22. 15 In the Steps of the Sibyl: Tradition and Desire in the Epic Underworld 253
23. 16 How Prudentian is the Aeneid? 265
24. 17 Strategies of Praise: The Aeneid and Renaissance Epic 278
25. 18 Virgil’s Fama in Leon Battista Alberti’s Momus 294
26. 19 Wordsworth’s Translation of Aeneid 1–3 and the Earlier Tradition of English Translations of Virgil 307
27. Part III: Ovid
28. 20 Ovid’s Theban History: The First ‘Anti-Aeneid’? 325
29. 21 The Janus Episode in Ovid’s Fasti 341
30. 22 Questions of Authority: The Invention of Tradition in Ovid Metamorphoses 15 356
31. 23 Ovid: A Poet of Transition? 374
32. 24 The Historian in Ovid: The Roman History of Metamorphoses 14–15 393
33. 25 Approximative Similes in Ovid: Incest and Doubling 411
34. 26 Ovidian Middles 433
35. 27 Lethaeus Amor: The Art of Forgetting 460
36. 28 The Self-Divisions of Scylla 482
37. Part IV: Reception of Ovid
38. 29 Statius’ Ovidian Poetics and the Tree of Atedius Melior (Silvae 2.3) 511
39. 30 Milton as Reader of Ovid’s Metamorphoses 524
40. 31 Ovidian Incarnations 544
41. 32 The Metamorphoses of Sin: Prudentius, Dante, Milton 571
42. 33 Ovidian Exile, Presence, and Metamorphosis in Late Antique Latin Poetry 588
43. Part V: Horace
44. 34 Vt pictura poesis? Horace and the Visual Arts 605
45. 35 The Ars Poetica and the Poetics of Didactic 634
46. 36 Horace and the Empedoclean Sublime 645
47. Part VI: Augustan Poetry and Culture
48. 37 Augustan Poets and the Mutability of Rome 663
49. 38 Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture 685
50. 39 Augustan Poetry and the Irrational 700
51. 40 Images of the Persian Wars in Rome 729
52. 41 Contrasts 746
53. 42 Phrygians in Rome/Romans in Phrygia 774
54. 43 Fame – The Last Word? 784
55. Index Locorum 801
56. General Index 805
57. Front Matter 2 813
58. Contents Volume II 817
59. List of Figures and Plates 821
60. Part VII: Roman Epic
61. 44 Poet, Patrons, Rulers: The Ennian Traditions 825
62. 45 Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic 842
63. 46 The Word Personified: Fame and Envy in Virgil, Ovid, Spenser 860
64. 47 Allegorical Absences: Virgil, Ovid, Prudentius and Claudian 873
65. 48 Closure in Latin Εpic 893
66. 49 The Vertical Axis in Classical and Post-classical Epic 919
67. 50 The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Latin Poetry 936
68. 51 Crowds and Leaders in Imperial Historiography and in Epic 949
69. Part VIII: Neronian and Flavian Epic
70. 52 Lucan’s Song of the Earth 969
71. 53 Flavian Epicists on Virgil’s Epic Technique 993
72. 54 Flavian Epic and the Sublime 1014
73. 55 Tales of Unity and Division in Imperial Latin Epic 1029
74. Part IX: Lucretius and the Reception of Lucretius
75. 56 Reflections of Lucretius in Late Antique and Early Modern Biblical and Scientific Poetry: Providence and the Sublime 1053
76. 57 Lucretius in Late Antique Poetry: Paulinus of Nola, Claudian, Prudentius 1071
77. Part X: Later Latin Poetry
78. 58 Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta’s Medea and the Poetics of the Cento 1087
79. 59 Martyrs’ Memorials: Glory, Memory, and Envy in Prudentius Peristephanon 1096
80. 60 Augustan and Late Antique Intratextuality: Virgil’s Aeneid and Prudentius’ Psychomachia 1121
81. 61 Cowherds and Saints: Paulinus of Nola Carmen 18 1132
82. 62 Unity and Disunity in Paulinus of Nola Poem 24 1149
83. Part XI: Post-classical
84. 63 Renaissance Latin Epic 1163
85. 64 Shepherds’ Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic 1183
86. 65 Vida’s De Arte Poetica and the Transformation of Models 1192
87. 66 Multiple Allusivity in Girolamo Vida De Arte Poetica 1202
88. 67 Virgilian Imperialism, Original Sin, and Fracastoro’s Syphilis 1220
89. 68 Adamastor and the Epic Poet’s Dark Continent 1231
90. 69 The Augustanism of Ben Jonson’s Poetaster 1241
91. 70 Milton’s Epitaphium Damonis and the Virgilian Career 1251
92. 71 Miltonic Echoes: Fallen and Unfallen Resonances in Paradise Lost 1268
93. 72 Lucan in the English Renaissance 1289
94. 73 Abraham Cowley Davideis, Sacri Poematis Operis Imperfecti Liber Unus 1304
95. 74 Generic Dialogue and the Sublime in Cowley: Epic, Didactic, Pindaric 1321
96. 75 Ovid and Virgil at the North Pole: Marvell’s ‘A Letter to Dr Ingelo’ 1341
97. Part XII: Greek
98. 76 Imago Mundi: Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Shield of Achilles 1359
99. 77 Sign Language in On the Sign of Socrates 1394
100. 78 A Reading of Heliodorus, Aithiopika 3.4.1–5.2 1407
101. 79 Nonnus’ Typhon: The Musical Giant 1431
102. Bibliography 1443
103. Index Locorvm 1513
104. General Index 1517