Roman epic: an interpretative introduction

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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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Full title :Roman epic : an interpretative introduction / by Michael von Albrecht.

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Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

Notes

Index: p. [365]-371.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 371 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9004112928, 9789004112926
oclc:ocn150833777
LC Classification:PA6054
Dewey Decimal:873/.0109

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. Albin…

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Epic poetry, Latin Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criti… Epos Histoire ancienne dans la littérature History, Ancient, in literature Latein Literature and history Literature and history -- Rome Littérature et histoire -- Rome Poésie épique latine -- Histoire et cri… Rome (Empire)