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1 online resource (x, 371 pages). |
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monochrome |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum,
0169-8958 ;
v. 189
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 189.
0169-8958
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-359) and indexes. |
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| Contents |
I. Introduction: Intertextuality and Rhetoric. Roman Epic Poets and Their Readers -- II. Livius Andronicus: Inuentio. The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language -- III. Naevius: Dispositio. The Clash of Myth and History -- IV. Ennius: Elocutio. A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures. A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society -- V. Virgil -- 1. Prooemium. The Poet and His Reader. The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid -- 2. Narratio. Aeneas' Account of his Flight -- 3. Inuentio I. Virgil's View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes (Aen. 6. 679-899) -- 4. Inuentio II. Turnus, a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle -- 5. Dispositio. Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence -- 6. Elocutio I. Virgil's Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid -- 7. Elocutio II. On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid -- VI. Ovid -- 1. Inuentio. Ovid and His Readers -- 2. Prooemium. Ovid's Arachne and Human Creativity -- 3. Elocutio. Similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Their Functions -- 4. Clash of Genres. Gods and Religion in Ovid's Metamorphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy -- 5. Clash of Systems of Values. The Daughters of Anius -- VII. Albinovanus Pedo: Elocutio and Defamiliarization. The Thrill of a First Experience -- VIII. Cornelius Severus: Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory -- IX. Lucan: The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric -- X. Valerius Flaccus: Elocutio. The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle -- XI. Statius: The Futility of Rhetoric. Achilles under the Spell of Beauty (Achilleid 1. 242-396) -- XII. Silius Italicus -- 1. Intertextuality as Guiding Principle of Invention -- 2. From Elegy to Epic. Claudia Quinta: Beauty under False Suspicion -- XIII. Claudian: Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality. Proserpina's Tapestry -- XIV. Corippus: Transformation of Epic Imagery. |
| Summary |
This book discusses some works of these poets: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Albinovanus Pedo, Cornelius Severus, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus, Claudian, and Corippus. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Passages in Latin frequently excerpted, with English translation following. |
| Subject |
Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Latin. |
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History, Ancient, in literature.
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History, Ancient, in literature. |
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Literature and history -- Rome.
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Rome -- In literature.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Albrecht, Michael von. Roman epic. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999 (DLC) 98049755 (OCoLC)40298432 |
| ISBN |
9789004351417 (electronic book) |
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9004351418 (electronic book) |
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9004112928 (cloth) |
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9789004112926 (cloth) |
| Standard No. |
16151851 |
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