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Wordplay and powerplay in Latin poetry /
Taking their point of departure from Frederick Ahl's pioneering work, the distinguished scholars in this volume have come together to re-examine the relation of poetry and power in the context of authoritarian regimes in ancient Rome and to examine the ways that poets not only commented on impe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
36. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents ; Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics From Horace to Silius Italicus ; Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos & Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)? ; Nominal Intelligence: Conspiracy, Prosopography, and the Secret of Horace, Odes 2.10.
- Another Vergilian Signature in the Georgics? Mora in the Aeneid ; Dido and the Owl ; Freudian Bullseyes in Classical Perspective: The Psycholinguistics of Guilt in Virgil's Aeneid ; Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus ; Violent Retribution and Pietas: The Closure of the Aeneid Revisited.
- Freedom of Speech in Virgil and Ovid Love's Letters: an Amor-Roma Telestich at Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.507-10 ; Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid ; Pythagoras and Numa in Ovid: Exile and Immortality at Rome ; Lucan's Caesar and Laelius ; A Theory of Violence in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile.
- From Pastoral to Panegyric in Calpurnius Siculus Speaking Names in Senecan Drama ; Civil War, the Soul, and the Cosmos at Seneca, Thyestes 547-622: A Tropology ; Doubtful Certainties: The Politics of Reading in Seneca's Oedipus ; Doubting Domitian's Divinity: Statius Achilleid 1.1-2.
- As if: Reflections on an Exemplary Wife Silius Italicus and Greek Epic: Imperial Culture Wars ; List of Contributors ; Publications by Frederick Ahl ; Index of passages discussed ; General Index.