From poetry to history: selected papers

'From Poetry to History' offers twenty-five selected papers by one of the world's leading Latinists and focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century to the early second century AD. Most of the papers present close readings of individual poems or passages of text. The authors principally featured are Catullus, Horace, and especially Tacitus, but there are also treatments of Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Augustus' 'Res Gestae', Velleius, and the younger Pliny. The volume includes four papers not previously published, as well as an epilogue which discusses some of the issues raised"--Publisher's description, back cover.

Poetry and history : Cicero, 'De Legibus' 1.1-5 -- 'Pauca Nuntiate' : Catullus 11 -- A suitable case for treatment? Catullus 51 -- A reading of Catullus 68A -- The position of Gallus in 'Eclogue' 6 -- 'Biformis Vares' : the 'Odes', Catullus, and Greek lyric -- The craft of Horace in 'Odes' 1.14 -- Horace's First Roman Ode -- 'Exegi Monumentum' : Horace, 'Odes' 3:30 -- Horace, 'Epistles' 1.19.23-40 -- Horace and historians -- Poems to Historians : Catullus 1 and Horace, 'Odes' 2.1 -- Propertius and Livy -- Virgil the historian : 'Aeneid' 8.626-62 and Livy -- Community health : metaphors in Latin historiography -- Making history : the heading of the 'Res Gestae' -- The date and genre of Velleius -- Pliny on writing history : 'Epistles' 5.8 -- Tacitus and the contemporary scene -- The preface to Tacitus' 'Agricola' -- Not a funeral note : Tacitus, 'Annals' 1.8, 5-6 -- Mutiny and madness : Tacitus, 'Annals' 1.16-49 -- Readers and reception : a text case -- Tiberius and the taste of power : the year 33 in Tacitus -- 'Aliena Facundia' : Seneca in Tacitus -- Epilogue.