Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own ...career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.
This volume assembles cutting-edge work on Latin poetic style from an international cast of scholars, both senior and emerging. Some of the papers were discussed in an international workshop in ...Oxford in March 2022 the rest have been commissioned to complement them.
This collection of essays reaffirms the central importance of adopting an intertextual approach to the study of Flavian epic poetry and shows, despite all that has been achieved, just how much still ...remains to be done on the topic. Most of the contributions are written by scholars who have already made major contributions to the field, and taken together they offer a set of state of the art contributions on individual topics, a general survey of trends in recent scholarship, and a vision of at least some of the paths work is likely to follow in the years ahead. In addition, there is a particular focus on recent developments in digital search techniques and the influence they are likely to have on all future work in the study of the fundamentally intertextual nature of Latin poetry and on the writing of literary history more generally.
This book provides a series of studies of the ways in which the major Augustan poets construct and explore images of the Roman Republic. It stands at the intersection between literature and history, ...offering an original and important exploration of an under-researched subject. The book’s explorations of the ways in which memories of the Roman Republic function in early imperial literature have illustrated the potential richness of this topic. Crucially, however, the book begins his survey with the age of Tiberius. In doing so, it underlines in the clearest possible way the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of res publica restituta and the expression of the need for a radical renewal of the Roman political system after decades of civil strife. This volume attempts to examine some of the ways in which the major Roman poets deal with these and related issues, by providing a collection of studies of the various ways in which individual Augustan texts handle the idea of the Roman Republic. It has long been recognised that literary texts can provide us with insights into the realities and ideologies of the age. But in order to exploit fully the potential of this line of enquiry and open up lines of further research into the ways in which the Augustan poets explore the Roman past, much work remains to be done. This volume attempts to open up this vast topic by exploring some of the ways in which Vergil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid, can be seen as constructing and investigating images of the Roman past as a specifically Republican history. The contributors are all experts in the field of Augustan poetry. The book contains an introduction which contextualizes the whole topic in light of recent research. It also contains an epilogue which surveys the book’s contribution to on-going debates about literature, history and memory. In between, the book contains fifteen chapters.
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to investigating the influence of Lucretius’ De rerum natura on Vergil. At the same time, the Aeneid has become a central text for ...the study of the presentation of the emotions in Latin poetry. The author attempts to bring together these two trends in Vergilian scholarship by trying to see if the depiction of emotions in Vergilian epic owes anything to Lucretian precedent. He focuses on the term animus and its use in the opening scenes of the Aeneid. It is an important word in both epics, but it is also notoriously hard to translate accurately.
La question de l’influence de la De rerum natura de Lucrèce sur Virgile a depuis quelques années occupé une place importante dans les recherches sur le poète de Mantoue. Parallèlement, l’Enéide est devenu un texte central pour les recherches sur la représentation des émotions dans la poésie latine. Cet article tente, à partir de ces deux approches, de voir si la description des émotions chez Virgile a subi l’influence de Lucrèce. L’emploi du mot ‘animus’ et ses différents emplois au début du premier livre de l’Enéide seront au centre de cette étude. Il s’agit là d’un mot qui, s’il est très important dans les deux épopées, est aussi notoirement très difficile à traduire avec précision.
In this paper we attempt to show that the prologue of the first book of the Georgics, in which a series of deities is invoked to preside over the beginning of Vergil’s text, should be related to the ...pompa circensis, the grand procession of deities which preceded the celebration of the ludi circenses. The Vergilian passage is compared with the descriptions of the pompa to be found in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.72.1-18 and Ovid, Amores 3.2. It is also discussed in relation to the prologue of Georgics 3, where a pompa is explicitly mentioned. In addition, we relate the prologue’s prediction of Octavian’s apotheosis to the fact that the pompa circensis was Rome’s most remarkable display of images of the gods and hence a major focus for the categorization of the divine, particularly in Triumviral and early Augustan Rome.
The papers published in this volume were first delivered at a colloquium entitled 'Lucain et Claudien face à face. Une poésie politique entre épopée, histoire et panégyrique', which took place at the ...Fondation Hardt, in Vandœuvres, near Geneva, in November 2012. The contributors, an international team of scholars, take the reader from broader considerations of both poets in relation to politics and ideology, generic positioning, construction of individual characters and strategies of panegyric, to a stronger focus on investigating precise examples of intertextual dialogue between Claudian and Lucan. In general, the collected studies are implicated in, or have implications for, other topics, such as Latin poetic style, history and the uses of mythology, the Roman epic tradition, and the whole question of the development of literary cultures and how they are received.
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