Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient HistoriographyThe Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or reacted against - the historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace's "Odes" to Ovid's "Metamorphoses," on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history. |
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Contents
The Historian in Ovid The Roman History | 10 |
Propertius the Historian 3 3 112? | 25 |
Augustan Victory and Defeat | 45 |
Repetition and Sacrifice | 61 |
Archaism and Historicism in Horaces Odes | 81 |
Historiography in Horaces Odes | 103 |
Ethnography and Politics in Firstcentury | 123 |
Roman Archaeology in Vergils Arcadia Vergil Eclogue | 143 |
Between Tradition and Genre | 231 |
Epic Encounters? Ancient Historical Battle Narratives | 253 |
The Structure of Livys First Pentad and the Augustan | 275 |
Ovids Fasti and Plutarchs | 291 |
The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History | 313 |
History Poetry and Annales | 331 |
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Index of passages discussed | 381 |
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| Title | Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography Volume 224 of Mnemosyne, Supplements Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava: Supplementum |
| Editors | David S. Levene, Damien P. Nelis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2002 |
| ISBN | 9004117822, 9789004117822 |
| Length | 396 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome History / Historiography Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / Ancient & Classical |
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