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LATIN EPIC AND DIDACTIC POETRY
GENRE, TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALITY |
| By: |
Monica R. Gale (Editor), Llewelyn Morgan, etc. |
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Hardback |
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£58.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0954384563 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780954384562 |
| Publisher: |
CLASSICAL PRESS OF WALES |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2004 |
| Pages: |
262 |
| Description: |
The epic was a daunting genre for Latin poets and audiences alike, with poets well aware that they were part of a tradition in which innovation had to be carefully balanced with the elements laid down by their Greek forbears. |
| Synopsis: |
How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Classical Press of Wales |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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