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Title Constructing authors and readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana / [edited by] T. E. Franklinos and Laurel Fulkerson
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 312 pages)
Series Pseudepigrapha latina
Pseudepigrapha latina.
Contents Cover -- Constructing Authorsand Readers in theAppendices Vergiliana,Tibulliana, and Ouidiana -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Authoring, reading, and exploring an Appendix: Some introductory thoughts -- Why this volume and why now? -- What's in a name? appendices vs opuscula -- The three Appendices: what we think we know -- Same and different-variations among the Appendices -- Summary of chapters -- 1 Scylla's lament in the Ciris and the Latin literary tradition -- Scylla's lament -- Concluding thoughts -- 2 The mythical antecedents of the Ciris*
3 Author and audience in Catalepton -- Reading Catalepton: parameters and perspectives -- The design of the collection -- Thematic emphases -- Poems 1 and 7: Tucca, Varius, and the Editor of Catalepton -- Poems 2, 5, and 8: rhetoric and philosophy -- Poems 3 and 9: great men -- Poems 4 and 11: poetry and history -- Poems 5 and 10: Sabinus ille? -- Poems 6 and 12: Noctuinus and Atilius, gener socerque -- 4 Construing the author as a Catullan reader in the pure iambic Catalepton (6, 10, 12) -- 5 Catalepton 9 and Valgius Rufus
6 Echoing Virgil and Narcissus: structure and interpretation of the Culex* -- Standard' tripartite structural model for the Culex -- Unipartite structural model: Ovid's Narcissus episode as hypotext -- Ring composition and reflection on the poet and Virgil -- Philosophy and vision: Lucretius -- Conclusion: the author of the Culex -- 7 Volcanic wonder: a starry-eyed view of the Aetna* -- 8 Teaching the death of elegy: the elegies of Lygdamus ([Tib.] 3.1-6) -- Love elegy and cultus -- Love and death -- Teacher of love -- Conclusion
9 Tibullan impersonation and Callimachean influence in the Messalla Panegyric ([Tib.] 3.7) -- 10 The authorship of Tibullus 3.9: methods and criteria -- 11 The authorship of Sulpicia* -- 12 The Halieutica attributed to Ovid: issues of authenticity, reception, and supplementation* -- The evidence from Pliny, Natural History -- Halieutica 1-18: improving the text? -- Supplementing the Halieutica: antiquity -- Supplementing the Halieutica: Renaissance -- Conclusion -- 13 Plumbing the Ovidian Halieutica* -- 14 The Consolatio ad Liuiam and literary history -- Author and readers
History and the poem's date -- Intertexts and sequence -- Conclusion -- 15 The lovers and the rebel: reading the double Heroides as an exilic text* -- 16 The Nux attributed to Ovid and its Renaissance readers: the case of Erasmus* -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- Index rerum
Summary By examining some early poetic understandings of what it might have meant to be Vergil, Ovid, and Tibullus, this volume explores what those authors meant to near-contemporaries, and what the construction of authorship they were a part of meant to the later western tradition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on Nov. 30, 2020)
Subject Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation
Tibullus -- Criticism and interpretation
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast
Tibullus fast
Virgil fast
Subject Latin poetry -- History and criticism
Latin poetry
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Franklinos, T. E. (Tristan Emil), 1989- editor.
Fulkerson, Laurel, 1972- editor.
ISBN 9780192633408
0192633406