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on Latin LiteratureClarendon Press, 1995 - 449 sider This book contains twenty-six articles, including three hitherto unpublished, on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by R. G. M. Nisbet.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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... political and religious institutions . The Trojans showed a Roman assurance in the sanctity of their foedus , but not surprisingly it proved acceptable only to a section of the Latins . Historians know that wars originate from deep ...
... political and religious institutions . The Trojans showed a Roman assurance in the sanctity of their foedus , but not surprisingly it proved acceptable only to a section of the Latins . Historians know that wars originate from deep ...
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... political panegyrics of clemency , and is more objectively refuted by the Homeric parallels . Virgil would read the Iliad in a moralizing spirit , which in spite of its unhistorical formulations has more essential truth than is ...
... political panegyrics of clemency , and is more objectively refuted by the Homeric parallels . Virgil would read the Iliad in a moralizing spirit , which in spite of its unhistorical formulations has more essential truth than is ...
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... political folly and gave vent to his misanthropy in virulent iambics , yet in the vicissitudes of war and politics showed a virile resolution and durability . Poets do not choose their personae at random , but to match something that ...
... political folly and gave vent to his misanthropy in virulent iambics , yet in the vicissitudes of war and politics showed a virile resolution and durability . Poets do not choose their personae at random , but to match something that ...
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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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