Style in Latin Poetry

Paolo Dainotti, Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa, Stephen Harrison, Paolo Dainotti, Alexandre Pinheiro Hasegawa, Stephen Harrison

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111067933
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry – from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality to literary criticism – in recent years, for various reasons, it has not received the attention it deserves. This book, published a generation after Adams and Mayer's seminal 1999 volume, Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry, ideally aims to complement and update it on a smaller scale, offering the reader a collection of stimulating papers from international scholars on the style of some of the most significant voices of Latin poetry, from early drama to the Flavian period.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• The Style of Latin Poetry
• Stylistic Features of Roman Republican Tragedy
• The Classical Style of Terence
• Lucretian Idiosyncrasy: Where to Draw the Line?
• Catullus 64 and the Temptation to Expressionism in Latin Epic
• Virgil’s Pathetic Technique
• Names and Places in Vergil’s Georgics
• Iconic Word Order in Horace’s Odes
• Vertical Juxtaposition in Horace Odes 1
• Ovid’s Stylistic Program in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto
• The Style of Evil in Seneca’s Medea
• Statius’ Paradoxical Style
• ‘Conscious’ and ‘Unconscious’ Repetitions in Latin Hexameter Poetry from Ennius to Lucan
• Reconsidering Virgil’s hysteron proteron
• Notes on Contributors
• Index Locorum
• Index Rerum