Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 2, Elegy, Lyric and Other Topics

Denis Feeney

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781108481854
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108665889
• 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 Si licet et fas est: Ovid’s Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech Under the Principate
• Chapter 2 ‘Shall I Compare Thee … ?’ Catullus 68B and the Limits of Analogy
• Chapter 3 Towards an Account of the Ancient World’s Concepts of Fictive Belief
• Chapter 4 Horace and the Greek Lyric Poets
• Chapter 5 Criticism Ancient and Modern
• Chapter 6 The Odiousness of Comparisons: Horace on Literary History and the Limitations of synkrisis
• Chapter 7 Una cum scriptore meo: Poetry, Principate, and the Traditions of Literary History in the Epistle to Augustus
• Chapter 8 Two Virgilian Acrostics: certissima signa?
• Chapter 9 Catullus and the Roman Paradox Epigram
• Chapter 10 Becoming an Authority: Horace on his Own Reception
• Chapter 11 Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace
• Chapter 12 Doing the Numbers: The Roman Mathematics of Civil War in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
• Chapter 13 Crediting Pseudolus: Trust, Belief, and the Credit Crunch in Plautus’ Pseudolus
• Chapter 14 Hic finis fandi: On the Absence of Punctuation for the Endings (and Beginnings) of Speeches in Latin Poetic Texts
• Chapter 15 Representation and the Materiality of the Book in Catullus’ Polymetrics
• Chapter 16 Catullus 61: Epithalamium and Comparison
• Chapter 17 Ovid’s Ciceronian Literary History: End-Career Chronology and Autobiography
• Chapter 18 Horace and the Literature of the Past: Lyric, Epic, and History in Odes 4
• Chapter 19 Forma manet facti (Ov. Fast. 2.379): Aetiologies of Myth and Ritual in Ovid’s Fasti and Metamorphoses
• Published Works of Denis Feeney
• Bibliography
• Index locorum
• General Index