Roman Epic: An Interpretative IntroductionBRILL, 2018 M07 17 - 384 pages The author's approach to Roman epic is interpretative; the reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of Antiquity. Famous poets are given the attention they deserve, but also some minor authors are discovered as precious 'missing links' between the ages. Special heed is paid to intertextual relationships between different epochs, cultures, literary genres, linguistic and literary patterns. The book is meant for students and teachers of classical and modern literatures, but also for all those interested in the history of literary genres and cultural ideas. |
Contents
Intertextuality and Rhetoric Roman Epic Poets and Their Readers | 1 |
Inuentio The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language | 33 |
Dispositio The Clash of Myth and History | 45 |
Elocutio A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society | 63 |
Elocutio and Defamiliarization The Thrill of a First Experience | 209 |
Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory | 217 |
The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric | 227 |
Elocutio The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle | 251 |
The Futility of Rhetoric Achiles under the Spell of Beauty Achilleid J 242396 | 277 |
Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality Proserpinas Tapestry | 317 |
Transformation of Epic Imagery | 329 |
| 341 | |
Periodicals and Standard Works | 361 |
| 365 | |
SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE | 373 |
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Achilles action adjectives Aeneas Aeneid Anchises Anius Apollo Apollonius Apollonius Rhodius Arachne Arachne's aspects atque Augustus Bacchus Bellum Poenicum Blänsdorf Book Caesar catalogue character Cicero Classical Claudian compared context Corippus Dido diss divine elements Elocutio emotional Ennius epic poets epic simile epic tradition Epilogue example fact final genre give goddess gods Greek Hector Hellenistic heroes historic perfect historic present Homer idea Iliad important intertextuality introduction Juno Juno's Jupiter Latin epic literary literature Livius Andronicus Lucan Marcellus mentioned Metamorphoses Morel myth Naevius narrative Odyssey Orpheus Ovid Ovid's Oxford Pallas paragraph parallel participles passage Pharsalia pietas poem poetic poetry Punica quoted reader reminiscent rhetoric role Roman epic Rome scene sentence Silius Italicus simile speech spondees Statius story stress structure style technique tenses theme Translation Trojan Troy Turnus Ulysses Valerius Flaccus Venus Virgil Virgilian words