Roman epic : an interpretive introduction /

This book discusses some works of these poets: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Albinovanus Pedo, Cornelius Severus, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus, Claudian, and Corippus.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Albrecht, Michael von
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 189.
Temas:
Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
History, Ancient, in literature.
Literature and history > Rome.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Poésie épique latine > Histoire et critique.
Histoire ancienne dans la littérature.
Littérature et histoire > Rome.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Epic poetry, Latin.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Epen.
Latijn.
Rhétorique antique.
Histoire ancienne > Dans la littérature.
Épopées latines > Histoire et critique.
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Rome > Dans la littérature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction: Intertextuality and Rhetoric. Roman Epic Poets and Their Readers
  • II. Livius Andronicus: Inuentio. The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language
  • III. Naevius: Dispositio. The Clash of Myth and History
  • IV. Ennius: Elocutio. A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures. A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society
  • V. Virgil
  • 1. Prooemium. The Poet and His Reader. The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid
  • 2. Narratio. Aeneas' Account of his Flight
  • 3. Inuentio I. Virgil's View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes (Aen. 6. 679-899)
  • 4. Inuentio II. Turnus, a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle
  • 5. Dispositio. Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence
  • 6. Elocutio I. Virgil's Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid
  • 7. Elocutio II. On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid
  • VI. Ovid
  • 1. Inuentio. Ovid and His Readers
  • 2. Prooemium. Ovid's Arachne and Human Creativity
  • 3. Elocutio. Similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Their Functions
  • 4. Clash of Genres. Gods and Religion in Ovid's Metamorphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy
  • 5. Clash of Systems of Values. The Daughters of Anius
  • VII. Albinovanus Pedo: Elocutio and Defamiliarization. The Thrill of a First Experience
  • VIII. Cornelius Severus: Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory
  • IX. Lucan: The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric
  • X. Valerius Flaccus: Elocutio. The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle
  • XI. Statius: The Futility of Rhetoric. Achilles under the Spell of Beauty (Achilleid 1. 242-396)
  • XII. Silius Italicus
  • 1. Intertextuality as Guiding Principle of Invention
  • 2. From Elegy to Epic. Claudia Quinta: Beauty under False Suspicion
  • XIII. Claudian: Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality. Proserpina's Tapestry
  • XIV. Corippus: Transformation of Epic Imagery.

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