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OverviewThis volume explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, the collection makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nora Goldschmidt (Durham University) , Professor of Classics Barbara Graziosi (Durham University)Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780191865442ISBN 10: 0191865443 Publication Date: 18 October 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsTombs of the Ancient Poets is a balanced and exceptionally accomplished publication, which will serve not only researchers dealing with antiquity but also those interested in the broader topics of cultural saints and the literary tradition and its spatiality. -- Tomasz Mojsik, Bryn Mawr Classical Review This is a delight for both the specialist and the general reader. -- Cora Beth Knowles, Classics for All """Tombs of the Ancient Poets is a balanced and exceptionally accomplished publication, which will serve not only researchers dealing with antiquity but also those interested in the broader topics of ""cultural saints"" and the literary tradition and its spatiality."" -- Tomasz Mojsik, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ""This is a delight for both the specialist and the general reader."" -- Cora Beth Knowles, Classics for All" Author InformationNora Goldschmidt is Assistant Professor of Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently completing a monograph on fictional biography and the reception of Latin poetry, Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (under contract with Cambridge University Press). Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics and Head of Department at Durham University. Her most recent monographs are The Gods of Olympus: A History (Profile Books, 2014) and Homer (Oxford University Press, 2016). She recently completed a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on visual and narrative portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets, entitled Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry. This volume stems from that project. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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