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Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
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Edited by:
John Miller
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
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This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, notably Lucan, Seneca, Statius, Pliny, Juvenal, Silius Italicus, and Tacitus.
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John F. Miller, Ph.D. (North Carolina), is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and author of Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991), Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (forthcoming 2009), and many articles on Roman poetry and the reception of Ovid. He was editor-in-chief of Classical Journal from 1991 to 1998 and has edited two collaborative volumes on Greek and Latin literature.
A.J. Woodman, Ph.D. (Cambridge), is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and author of Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (1988), Latin Historians (1997, with C.S. Kraus) and Tacitus Reviewed (1998) and commentaries on Velleius Paterculus (1977, 1983) and (with R.H. Martin) Tacitus, Annals 3 (1996) and 4 (1989). He has produced award-winning translations of Sallust and Tacitus' Annals and has co-edited numerous volumes on Latin poetry and historical writing.
A.J. Woodman, Ph.D. (Cambridge), is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and author of Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (1988), Latin Historians (1997, with C.S. Kraus) and Tacitus Reviewed (1998) and commentaries on Velleius Paterculus (1977, 1983) and (with R.H. Martin) Tacitus, Annals 3 (1996) and 4 (1989). He has produced award-winning translations of Sallust and Tacitus' Annals and has co-edited numerous volumes on Latin poetry and historical writing.
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"...Quintilian’s proxima poetis is in fact an apposite characterization of Roman historiography. The editors and the publisher are to be congratulated for this important and thought-provoking collection." Jakub Pigoń in BMCR, 14.8.2011
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eBook published on:
August 23, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9789047430995
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Main content:
248
eBook ISBN:
9789047430995
Keywords for this book
Classics; Latin; Historiography; History; Poetry; Literature; First century AD
Audience(s) for this book
Students and scholars of Latin literature generally, and of the Roman historians and poets specifically; university libraries
