Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry : Gallus Elegy and Rome

Ross, David O.

Cambridge University Press（2010/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 188 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521136693
• DDC分類 871.0109

Full Description

In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject. Augustan poets were self-conscious and concerned with the works of their predecessors and contemporaries, yet there often appears a conflict between their professed poetics and what they in fact wrote. In his 'poetic biography' of the period, Professor Ross traces the developing attitude of these poets towards poetry as an art and considers why they came to write as they did. Discussion throughout is based on specific poems and passages, providing a background for critical interpretation. The book offers comprehensive and striking answers to long-standing questions and will be of importance to all students of Latin poetry.

Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction: from Catullus to Gallus; 2. The Sixth Eclogue: Virgil's poetic genealogy; 3. Gallus the elegist; 4. Propertius' Monobiblos; 5. Gallus and the Tenth Eclogue; 6. Propertius: from Ardoris Poeta to Romanus Callimachus; 7. The Roman poetry of Horace and Tibullus; 8. Conclusions; List of works cited; Index rerum notabiliorum; Index locorum potiorum.