From Poetry to History offers twenty-five selected papers by the leading Latin scholar A.J. Woodman, and focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD. Most of the papers represent close readings of individual poems or pa…
From Poetry to History offers twenty-five selected papers by the leading Latin scholar A.J. Woodman, and focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD. Most of the papers represent close readings of individual poems or pa…
This volume focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD. Most of the chapters represent close readings of individual poems or passages of text. The authors principally featured are Catullus, Horace, and especially Tacit…
'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…
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 …
