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Ilias Latina
Text, Interpretation, and Reception
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Edited by:
Maria Jennifer Falcone
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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In Ilias Latina. Text, Interpretation, and Reception, the contributors approach this short poem, whose appeal and importance have not been sufficiently appreciated, from a multitude of scholarly perspectives. The challenging synthesis of the different issues shows that both a new edition and a modern literary interpretation of the poem are needed. Particularly focusing in various ways on the technique of vertere, the papers concern four main issues: the different elements of the narration, such as macro- and microstructure, single Bauformen and motifs, characters and scenes; the intertextual allusions to Homer and the texts of the Roman poetic tradition; the literary genre, the explicitly metaliterary passages and the implicit narrative and poetic choices; the medieval reception of the Ilias Latina.
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Maria Jennifer Falcone (Università di Pavia-Cremona) is currently Ricercatrice in Latin Language and Literature. She has published a monograph on Medea in the tragedy of the Republican period and many articles mainly focusing on Latin poetry.
Christoph Schubert holds the chair of Classical Philology (Latin Studies) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research areas are the poetry of the first century C.E. and the Christian literature of late antiquity.
Contributors are: Giuseppe Aricò, Anton Bierl, Caterina Carpinato, Massimo Cè, Frédéric Duplessis, Maria Jennifer Falcone, Michele C. Ferrari, Luigi Galasso, Edoardo Galfré, Thomas Gärtner, Steven J. Green, Fabian Horn, Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Christiane Reitz, Judith Rohman, Christoph Schubert, Katrin Schürmann, Georgina White
Christoph Schubert holds the chair of Classical Philology (Latin Studies) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research areas are the poetry of the first century C.E. and the Christian literature of late antiquity.
Contributors are: Giuseppe Aricò, Anton Bierl, Caterina Carpinato, Massimo Cè, Frédéric Duplessis, Maria Jennifer Falcone, Michele C. Ferrari, Luigi Galasso, Edoardo Galfré, Thomas Gärtner, Steven J. Green, Fabian Horn, Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Christiane Reitz, Judith Rohman, Christoph Schubert, Katrin Schürmann, Georgina White
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eBook published on:
October 18, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789004469532
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430
eBook ISBN:
9789004469532
Keywords for this book
Latin epics; Homer; Bauformen; literary genres; epitome; Neronian literature; Baebius
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in Latin epics and poetry, in the reception of Homer, in textual criticism, and in Neronian literature.
