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Clio and the Poets
Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography
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Edited by:
David Levene
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2002
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The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day.
In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on — or reacted against — the historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems
from Horace’s Odes to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history.
In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on — or reacted against — the historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems
from Horace’s Odes to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history.
Author / Editor information
D.S. Levene, Ph.D. (1989) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. He has published a variety of works on Latin historiography and rhetoric, including Religion in Livy (Brill, 1993).
D.P. Nelis, Ph.D. (1988) in Classics, Queen's University of Belfast, is Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Vergil and Apollonius: the Aeneid and the Argonautica (Leeds 2001).
D.P. Nelis, Ph.D. (1988) in Classics, Queen's University of Belfast, is Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Vergil and Apollonius: the Aeneid and the Argonautica (Leeds 2001).
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eBook published on:
September 11, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789047400493
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Main content:
400
eBook ISBN:
9789047400493
Audience(s) for this book
All scholars and students of the literature of the Augustan period and of Roman poetry and historiography.
