Latin Poetry and Its Reception

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All chapters reflect the wide research interests of Prof. Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated.

Autorentext

C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors; Preface; Roman Kingship; 1. Kingship Theory in Latin Poetry, 240-20 BCE, Joseph Farrell; 2. The Good King According to Virgil in the Aeneid, Alison Keith; 3.The Nature and Nurture of Kingship in Virgil's Georgics and Seneca's De Clementia, Jayne Knight; 4. Rege sub uno: On the Politics of Statius' Achilleid, Alessandro Barchiesi; Genre Crossing; 5. The Return of the Tibicines in Livy and Ovid, Marcus Wilson; 6. Phaedrus in the Forum: Plautus' Pseudolus and Plato's Phaedrus, Christopher S. van den Berg; 7. When Mortals Meet Gods in Classical and Contemporary Contexts, Paula James; 8. Tacitean Inflections of Sincerity, Victoria Emma Pagán; Imperial Intertexts; 9. The Burial of Misenus and Lucan's De Bello Ciuili, Cillian O'Hogan; 10. Mens Humilis vs. Superbia in Prudentius' Psychomachia, Andrew M. McClellan; 11. Keeping the faith: allegory in late antique panegyric and hagiography, Philip Hardie; Modern Receptions; 12. Gavin Douglas's Cranes and Other Classical Birds, Carole Newlands; 13. After Strada: English Responses to Strada's Nightingale (Prolusiones 2.6), with texts of four previously unprinted versions, Stuart Gillespie; 14. Gibbon and Juvenal, Josiah Osgood; 15. Into the Maw: Melville and the Classical Tradition, Bill Gladhill; 16. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex: The Libretto, Stephen Harrison; 17. Muted Voices: Marina Tsvetaeva's and Anna Akhmatova's Classical Heroines, Zara Torlone; 18. Translating Friendship: My Brilliant Friend and the Aeneid, Corinne Pache; Index