| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 393 pages) |
| Contents |
Per transitum tangit historiam : intersecting developments of Roman identity in Virgil -- The philology of history : how and what Augustan literature remembers -- Camillus in Ovid's Fasti -- Roman Gentes in Ovid's Fasti : the Fabii and the Claudii -- Trojan palimpsests : the archaeology of Roman history in Aeneid 2 -- Virgil's Bacchus and the Roman Republic -- Caesar, Lucan, and the Massilian Marathonomachia -- From Paris to Rome : Virgil's Andromache between politics and poetics in Charles Baudelaire's Le Cygne -- Horace's Epistle 2.1, Cicero, Varro, and the ancient debate about the origins and the development of Latin poetry -- Constructing the Roman myth : the history of the republic in Horace's lyric poetry -- Numa in Augustan poetry -- Past, present, and future in Virgil's Georgics -- Catullus 64 and the prophetic voice in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue -- Virgil's Caesar : intertextuality and ideology -- The Domus of Fama and republican space in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| Summary |
'Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic' focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation
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Horace -- Criticism and interpretation
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Propertius, Sextus -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
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Horace |
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. |
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Propertius, Sextus |
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Virgil |
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Latin poetry -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Rome
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Historiography -- Rome
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Historiography
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Latin poetry
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Literature
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Politics and literature
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Rome -- In literature
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Farrell, Joseph, 1955-
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Nelis, Damien.
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| ISBN |
9780191663222 |
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0191663220 |
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9780191746222 |
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0191746223 |
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