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Author:   Denis Feeney (Princeton University, New Jersey) ,  Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9781108481861

ISBN 10:   1108481868
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   19 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 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 Information

Denis 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.

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