Hellenistic Greek and Augustan latin poetry, Flavian and post-Flavian latin poetry, Greek and Roman prose

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Hellenistic Greek and Augustan latin poetry, Flavian and post-Flavian latin poetry, Greek and Roman prose

edited by Francis Cairns ; with the assistance of Sandra Cairns and Frederick Williams

(Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, 13th vol., 2008)(ARCA classical and medieval texts, papers, and monographs, 48)

Francis Cairns, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

These 13 papers by an international group of scholars examine Greek and Roman poetry and prose.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry:Unwilling Farewell and Complex Allusion (Sappho, Callimachus and Aeneid 6.458) ( B. Acosta-Hughes)
  • The iIppikav of Posidippus ( M.W. Dickie)
  • An Augustan Hymn to the Muses (Horace Odes 3.4) ( Alex Hardie)
  • Horace's Sublime Yearnings: Lucretian Ironies ( Philip Hardie)
  • Horace Epistles 2: the Last Horatian Book of Sermones? ( S.J. Harrison)
  • Ars latet arte sua: Rhetoric and Poetry in Phyllis' Letter to Demophoon (Ovid Heroides 2) ( Andreas N. Michalopoulos)
  • Flavian and post-Flavian Latin Poetry: The Date of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica ( Tim Stover)
  • Etymological Wordplay in Flavian Epic ( Alison Keith)
  • Verbal and Thematic Links between Poems and Books in Martial ( Robert Maltby)
  • Juvenal Satire 6: Misogyny or Misogamy? The Evidence of Protreptics on Marriage ( Lindsay Watson)
  • Greek and Roman Prose: Letters from an Advocate: Pliny's 'Vesuvius' Narratives (Epistles 6.16, 6.20) ( D.H. Berry)
  • Individual Rivalries in Plutarch's Late Republican Lives ( Robin Seager)
  • Augustine on the Power and Weakness of Words ( Therese Fuhrer)
  • Index of selected passages.

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  • NCID
    BB08186286
  • ISBN
    • 9780905205502
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    390 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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