| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Arma uirumque cano -- 2. Some background -- 3. Performance of Horatian Lyric : The Limits of Reference -- 4. Horatian Lyric and Metaphorical Truths -- 5. At the Limits of Performativity : The Carmen saeculare -- 6. Monument and Festival in Vergil -- 7. Elegy : Overcoming Inability -- 8. Love and Semiotics -- 9. Beyond Performance Envy : Horace, Epistles 2.1 -- 10. De- and Re-contextualization: Horace, Epistles 1.19 -- 11. Ovid's Triumphs in Exile : Representation and Power -- 12. Auctoritas and Representation : Augustus' Res gestae -- 13. Occasion and Monument : The Ara Pacis -- 14. Literature and the Law : Horace, Sermones 2.1 -- 15. Inscription and Testimony : Propertius 4.11 -- 16. Pragmatics of Literature : Ovid |
| Summary |
An exploration of the relationship between poetry, song, and authority in Augustan Rome. Michèle Lowrie argues that the medium of writing, as opposed to song, could offer an escape from current social and political demands by shifting the focus toward the readership of posterity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-410) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin poetry -- History and criticism
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Performance art -- Rome
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Latin poetry.
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Performance art.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115125
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191571695 |
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0191571695 |
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9780199545674 |
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0199545677 |
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9780191719950 |
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0191719951 |
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