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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 Professor Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated.
Latin Poetry and Its Reception assembles a blend of senior scholars and new voices in Latin literary studies. It makes important contributions to the understanding of kingship in Hellenistic and Roman thought, with the first four chapters dedicated to exploring this theme in Republican poetry, Virgil, Seneca, and Statius. Chapters focusing on the modern reception include case studies from the 16th to the 21st century, with discussions on Gavin Douglas, Edward Gibbon, Herman Melville, Igor Stravinsky, and Elena Ferrante, among others. No comparable volume provides a similar range.
Latin Poetry and Its Reception will appeal to all scholars of Latin poetry and classical reception, from senior undergraduates to scholars in classics and other disciplines.
Contents
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
