Backgrounds To Augustan Poetry

Author : David O. Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521207045
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry written by David O. Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the developing attitude of poets of the first century BC, considering why they came to write as they did.

Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 1913701174
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry written by Peter E. Knox and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having established his reputation as an elegist, Ovid turned to the composition of hexameter narrative. Although the Metamorphoses has often been treated as an appendix to the history of Augustan poetry, the principal lines of stylistic and thematic development continue in Ovid's work. Drawing upon the structure and content of Vergil's Sixth Eclogue, the Metamorphoses is an intricate and allusive poem that combines elements from the entire range of Roman verse composed in the Alexandrian manner. Professor Knox focuses in particular upon the contributions of elegy and epyllion, examining the manner in which Ovid exploits the diction of these genres in order to distinguish his poem from traditional epic verse. The study concludes with an investigation of the aetiological stories of the final book and the sustained evocation of Callimachus' Aetia at its close.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199587221
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic written by Joseph Farrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191037710
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Irrational written by Philip Hardie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of the Augustan regime presents itself as the assertion of order and rationality in the political, ideological, and artistic spheres, after the disorder and madness of the civil wars of the late Republic. But the classical, Apollonian poetry of the Augustan period is fascinated by the irrational in both the public and private spheres. There is a vivid memory of the political and military furor that destroyed the Republic, and also an anxiety that furor may resurface, that the repressed may return. Epic and elegy are both obsessed with erotic madness: Dido experiences in her very public role the disabling effects of love that are both lamented and celebrated by the love elegists. Didactic (especially the Georgics) and the related Horatian exercises in satire and epistle, offer programmes for constructing rational order in the natural, political, and psychological worlds, but at best contain uneasily an ever-present threat of confusion and backsliding, and for the most part fall short of the austere standards of rational exposition set by Lucretius. Dionysus and the Dionysiac enjoy a prominence in Augustan poetry and art that goes well beyond the merely ornamental. The person of the emperor Augustus himself tests the limits of rational categorization. Augustan Poetry and the Irrational contains contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars. An introduction which surveys the field as a whole is followed by chapters that examine the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explore elements of post-classical reception.

Author : Paulo Martins
Publisher : Paulo Martins
ISBN 13 : 8575063715
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry. New Trends and Revaluations written by Paulo Martins and published by Paulo Martins. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lauren Curtis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107188784
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry written by Lauren Curtis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of Augustan literature, focusing on its imaginative reading of Greek musical culture.

Author : Christopher V. Trinacty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199356572
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry written by Christopher V. Trinacty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their practice of aemulatio, the mimicry of older models of writing, the Augustan poets often looked to the Greeks: Horace drew inspiration from the lyric poets, Virgil from Homer, and Ovid from Hesiod, Callimachus, and others. But by the time of the great Roman tragedian Seneca, the Augustan poets had supplanted the Greeks as the "classics" to which Seneca and his contemporaries referred. Indeed, Augustan poetry is a reservoir of language, motif, and thought for Seneca's writing. Strangely, however, there has not yet been a comprehensive study revealing the relationship between Seneca and his Augustan predecessors. Christopher Trinacty's Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry is the long-awaited answer to the call for such a study. Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry uniquely places Senecan tragedy in its Roman literary context, offering a further dimension to the motivations and meaning behind Seneca's writings. By reading Senecan tragedy through an intertextual lens, Trinacty reveals Seneca's awareness of his historical moment, in which the Augustan period was eroding steadily around him. Seneca, looking back to the poetry of Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, acts as a critical interpreter of both their work and their era. He deconstructs the language of the Augustan poets, refiguring it through the perspective of his tragic protagonists. In doing so, he positions himself as a critic of the Augustan tradition and reveals a poetic voice that often subverts the classical ethos of that tradition. Through this process of reappropriation Seneca reveals much about himself as a playwright and as a man: In the inventive manner in which he re-employs the Augustan poets' language, thought, and poetics within the tragic framework, Seneca gives his model works new--and uniquely Senecan--life. Trinacty's analysis sheds new light both on Seneca and on his Augustan predecessors. As such, Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry promises to be a groundbreaking contribution to the study of both Senecan tragedy and Augustan poetry.

Author : Bernard Nicholas Schilling
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Articles: for the Study of English Augustan Backgrounds written by Bernard Nicholas Schilling and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1961 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. von Albrecht
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004329900
Total Pages : 1864 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Roman Literature (2 vols.) written by M. von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.

Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 1913701131
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry written by Richard F. Thomas and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fixed in diction and form, the tradition of ethnographical prose extends from fifth-century Greece through all of Latin literature. Issues such as situation, climate and fertility have a direct effect on the social and ethical status of a land's inhabitants, and it is this uniformity of purpose that motivates the strictly formulaic nature of ethnographical texts. In this volume, Professor Thomas examines the influence of that tradition on the poetry of Virgil, Horace and Lucan. At their hands it emerges as a vehicle for the expression of attitudes not only towards civilized Italian society, but also to landscapes and environments which are largely their own poetic creations, and which are to be viewed in contrast to the world of Rome. The work concludes with an examination of Tacitus' place both in the acknowledged prose tradition, and in the more allusive poetic tradition which this study has detected.