Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography, Religion

Denis Feeney

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781108481861
• eBook ISBN: 9781108642156
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• List of Acknowledgements and Original Places of Publication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Taciturnity of Aeneas
• Chapter 2 The Reconciliations of Juno
• Chapter 3 Epic Hero and Epic Fable
• Chapter 4 Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
• Chapter 5 History and Revelation in Virgil’s Underworld
• Chapter 6 Following after Hercules, in Virgil and Apollonius
• Chapter 7 Beginning Sallust’s Catiline
• Chapter 8 Leaving Dido: The Appearance(s) of Mercury and the Motivations of Aeneas
• Chapter 9 Epic Violence, Epic Order: Killings, Catalogues, and the Role of the Reader in Aeneid 10
• Chapter 10 Mea tempora: Patterning of Time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• Chapter 11 Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models
• Chapter 12 Tenui . . . latens discrimine: Spotting the Differencesin Statius’ Achilleid
• Chapter 13 On Not Forgetting the ‘Literatur’ in ‘Literatur und Religion’: Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography
• Chapter 14 Virgil’s Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome
• Chapter 15 First Similes in Epic
• Chapter 16 Fictions of Citizenship in Livy’s History
• Published Works of Denis Feeney
• Bibliography
• Index locorum
• General Index