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Author Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945-

Title From poetry to history : selected papers / A.J. Woodman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 446 pages)
Contents Poetry and history : Cicero, 'De Legibus' 1.1-5 -- 'Pauca Nuntiate' : Catullus 11 -- A suitable case for treatment? Catullus 51 -- A reading of Catullus 68A -- The position of Gallus in 'Eclogue' 6 -- 'Biformis Vares' : the 'Odes', Catullus, and Greek lyric -- The craft of Horace in 'Odes' 1.14 -- Horace's First Roman Ode -- 'Exegi Monumentum' : Horace, 'Odes' 3:30 -- Horace, 'Epistles' 1.19.23-40 -- Horace and historians -- Poems to Historians : Catullus 1 and Horace, 'Odes' 2.1 -- Propertius and Livy -- Virgil the historian : 'Aeneid' 8.626-62 and Livy -- Community health : metaphors in Latin historiography -- Making history : the heading of the 'Res Gestae' -- The date and genre of Velleius -- Pliny on writing history : 'Epistles' 5.8 -- Tacitus and the contemporary scene -- The preface to Tacitus' 'Agricola' -- Not a funeral note : Tacitus, 'Annals' 1.8, 5-6 -- Mutiny and madness : Tacitus, 'Annals' 1.16-49 -- Readers and reception : a text case -- Tiberius and the taste of power : the year 33 in Tacitus -- 'Aliena Facundia' : Seneca in Tacitus -- Epilogue
Summary This volume focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD. Most of the chapters represent close readings of individual poems or passages of text. The authors principally featured are Catullus, Horace, and especially Tacitus, but there are also treatments of Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Augustus' Res Gestae, Velleius, and the younger Pliny. The volume includes four chapters not previously published, as well as an epilogue which discusses some of the issues raised
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-437) and indexes
Notes In English; occasional phrases in Latin; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations
Subject Historical poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
Historiography -- Rome
Historical poetry, Latin.
Historiography.
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199608652
0199608652
9780191804649
0191804649