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About this book
This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The contributors ā Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles and Tony Woodman ā have aimed to produce close readings of classical texts, paying due attention to historical context and literary tradition in the manner adopted by David West himself. The authors covered are Empedocles, Antisthenes, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace (Epodes and Odes), Propertius, Virgil (Aeneid), Dio Chrysostom and Hildebert of Lavardin.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Professor David West
- Bibliography of David West
- 1. Epigrams by Lutatius Catulus (fr. 1) and Callimachus (AP 12.73 = 4 HE)
- 2. Contextualising Catullus: a re-examination of 66.1ā14
- 3. Vinous voices: Horaceās ninth Epode
- 4. The formation of an Augustan elegist: Empedocles and Propertiusā āMonobiblosā
- 5. Horaceās hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): politics and poetics
- 6. Romane, memento: Antisthenes, Dio and Virgil on the education of the strong
- 7. Hildebert of Lavardin on the monuments of Rome
- Bibliography