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Title Augustan poetry and the Roman Republic / edited by Joseph Farrell and Damien P. Nelis
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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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
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Subject Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation
Horace -- Criticism and interpretation
Propertius, Sextus -- Criticism and interpretation
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Horace fast
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast
Propertius, Sextus fast
Virgil fast
Subject Latin poetry -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Rome
Historiography -- Rome
POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Historiography
Latin poetry
Literature
Politics and literature
SUBJECT Rome -- In literature
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Farrell, Joseph, 1955-
Nelis, Damien.
ISBN 9780191663222
0191663220
9780191746222
0191746223