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Exemplary traits : reading characterization in Roman poetry /
How did Roman poets create character? The mythological figures that dot the landscape of Roman poetry entail their own predetermined plotlines and received characteristics: the idea of a gentle, maternal Medea is as absurd as a spineless and weak Achilles. For Roman poets, the problem is even more a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- We'll always have Paris: Aeneas and the Roman legacy
- Lucan's Cato and the poetics of exemplarity
- Seneca's Oedipus: characterization and decorum
- Parthenopaeus and mors immatura in Statius' Thebaid
- Amphiaraus, predestined prophet, didactic vates.