Collected Papers on Latin LiteratureClarendon Press, 1995 - 449 sider This book contains twenty-six articles, including three hitherto unpublished, on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by R. G. M. Nisbet. Some handle literary themes with a historical bearing: Gallus' elegiacs on Caesar and 'Lycoris', rediscovered in 1978; the relation of Virgil's fourth Eclogue to Isaiah; Horace as an eye-witness of the battle of Actium; the causes of Ovid's exile and his poetic response. Other papers discuss Virgil's bucolic style; symbolism in Seneca's tragedies; how poems by Horace and Statius are coloured by the characteristics of their addresses. Articles on prose consider the reader's contribution to the understanding of Cicero's speeches and the use of rhythm to determine the punctuation of Latin sentences. Many textual conjectures are proposed on familiar Latin authors, notably Catullus, Horace, and Juvenal; other papers discuss Housman's Juvenal and 'how textual conjectures are made'. The book ends with a criticism of the current tendency to exaggerate the ambiguities of Roman poetry. |
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... less factual than G. would admit : did tired statesmen regularly drink with the poet to forget their worries about the Cantabrians ? G. says something about Bacchus as a god of poetry as well as wine ( 70 ff . ) . He regards Horace's ...
... less factual than G. would admit : did tired statesmen regularly drink with the poet to forget their worries about the Cantabrians ? G. says something about Bacchus as a god of poetry as well as wine ( 70 ff . ) . He regards Horace's ...
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... less imaginative successor , observing that Gallus is not actually mentioned , might then conclude that something had been excised . 9. The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid . The subject of this chapter is not revealed by its title ...
... less imaginative successor , observing that Gallus is not actually mentioned , might then conclude that something had been excised . 9. The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid . The subject of this chapter is not revealed by its title ...
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... less use than one's own experi- ence . Ideally we should have an accurate recall of most that we read ; but a vague impression that can be verified , or even a subconscious memory , may serve us just as well . We should clear the ground ...
... less use than one's own experi- ence . Ideally we should have an accurate recall of most that we read ; but a vague impression that can be verified , or even a subconscious memory , may serve us just as well . We should clear the ground ...
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Foreword by Michael Winterbottom 1 Notes on Horace Epistles 1 | 1 |
Review and Discussion of K Müller ed Petroniï Arbitri | 2 |
Satyricon and W V Clausen ed A Persi Flacci et D Iuni Iuvenalis Saturae | 6 |
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