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Author Karakasis, Evangelos, author

Title T. Calpurnius Siculus : a pastoral poet in Neronian Rome / Evangelos Karakasis
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 335 pages)
Series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; v. 35
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes.
Contents Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part A: The Political Eclogues 1, 4, 7 -- Calpurnius 1 -- Calpurnius 4 -- Calpurnius 7 -- Part B: Pastoral, Elegy, Comedy and the Georgics -- Elegy and Comedy -- Calpurnius 3 -- Georgics -- Calpurnius 5 -- Elegy and Georgics -- Calpurnius 2 -- Part C: Challenging the Very Structure of the Singing Match ... -- Calpurnius 6 -- General Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Summary T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius' pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurnius' epigonal and generically transcending poetics and meta-poetics through a thorough comparative analysis of the generic interfaces between the bucolic host genre (as bequeathed to Siculus from Theocritus to Vergil) and various generic modes which operate in Calpurnius' eclogues, such as epic, panegyric, elegiac, didactic/georgic. The analysis includes themes/motifs, intertexts and allusion, narrative sequences, diction and metre as well as meta-generic/meta-poetic signs, including Calpurnius' redirection and inversion of the Callimachean-neoteric poetological meta-language. The study's interests also revolve around the ways in which Neronian ideology and imperial politics inform the pastoral narrative and often account for the formalistic change discerned as well as the manner in which Post-Classical diction functions as a targeted, self-conscious linguistic tell-tale of generic evolution. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Roman pastoral and its generic evolution as well as Neronian Literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Calpurnius Siculus, Titus. Bucolica.
Calpurnius Siculus, Titus -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Calpurnius Siculus, Titus fast
Calpurnius Siculus, Titus ca. 54 Eclogae gnd
Bucolica (Calpurnius Siculus, Titus) fast
Subject Pastoral poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Theology in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Pastoral poetry, Latin
Theology in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110472691
3110472694
9783110473254
3110473259