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OverviewDenis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey) , Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.638kg ISBN: 9781108741538ISBN 10: 1108741533 Pages: 443 Publication Date: 30 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The taciturnity of Aeneas; 2. The reconciliations of Juno; 3. Epic hero and epic fable; 4. Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the greatness of Pompeius Magnus; 5. History and revelation in Virgil's underworld; 6. Following after Hercules, in Apollonius and Virgil; 7. Beginning Sallust's Catiline; 8. Leaving Dido: the appearance(s) of Mercury and the motivations of Aeneas; 9. Epic violence, epic order: killings, catalogues, and the role of the reader in Aeneid 10; 10. Mea tempora: patterning of time in Ovid's Metamorphoses; 11. Interpreting sacrificial ritual in Roman poetry: disciplines and their models; 12. Tenui…latens discrimine: spotting the differences in Statius' Achilleid; 13. On not forgetting the 'Literatur' in 'Literatur und Religion'; 14. Virgil's tale of four cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome; 15. First similes in epic; 16. Fictions of citizenship in Livy's History.Reviews'... its exquisite prose; its generosity to the community of scholarship that it engages; its extraordinary vision of Vergil as fearlessly human - made me want to be a different sort of reader than I had been theretofore ... I recommend it to all.' Clifford Ando, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationDenis Feeney is Giger Professor of Latin in the Department of Classics at Princeton University. His publications include The Gods in Epic (1991); Literature and Religion at Rome (Cambridge, 1998); Caesar's Calendar (2007); Beyond Greek (2016). He was also a Series Editor, with Stephen Hinds, of Roman Literature and its Contexts for Cambridge University Press. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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