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1 online resource |
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Mnemosyne supplements : monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 450 |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 540.
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| Summary |
"In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning"-- Provided by publisher |
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"The majority of the chapters collected in this volume began their life as papers delivered at a conference on imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry organised at the University of Heidelberg on 1st-3rd July 2016." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2022) |
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Didactic poetry, Classical -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Figures of speech in literature -- Congresses
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Didactic poetry, Classical
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Figures of speech in literature
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Literary criticism.
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Actes de congrès.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clay, Jenny Strauss, editor.
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Vergados, Athanassios, editor
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Teaching Through Images: Imagery in Greek and Roman Didactic Poetry (Conference) (2016 : Heidelberg, Germany)
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| LC no. |
2021050519 |
| ISBN |
9789004501584 |
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9004501584 |
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