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Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan: Roman Literature and its Contexts

Autor James J. O'Hara
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 2007
How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus' Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Not all inconsistencies can or should be interpreted thematically, but numerous details in these poems, and some ancient and modern theorists, suggest that we can be better readers if we consider how inconsistencies may be functioning in Greek and Roman texts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521646420
ISBN-10: 0521646421
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Roman Literature and its Contexts

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Greek versions; 2. Catullus 64: variants and the virtues of heroes; 3. Death, inconsistency and the Epicurean poet; 4. Voices, variants and inconsistency in the Aeneid; 5. Inconsistency and authority in Ovid's Metamorphoses; 6. Postscript: Lucan's Bellum Civile and the inconsistent Roman epic.

Recenzii

"The argument is lucid and profitable. Any student of the Classics could learn a lot by following the author's concise examination of many of the major interpretative problems in Roman epic poetry."
James J. O'Hara, New England Classical Journal
"O'Hara's study is aimed at any reader, expert or not, interested in using literary theory to shed new light on contemporary issues in Roman epic." BMCR
"The book is written in a clear language which abstains from an artificially complicated vocabulary and convoluted sentences. O'Hara convincingly suggests many reasons why Roman poets chose discrepancies."
Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, Sabine Grebe, University of Guelph

Descriere

Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics.

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