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on Latin LiteratureClarendon Press, 1995 - 449 sider This book contains twenty-six articles, including three hitherto unpublished, on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by R. G. M. Nisbet.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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... turn to Hesiod's maxim on the uphill path to virtue ( Op . 290 ) . | With his new - found conviction the poet next develops a Stoic doctrine expounded in Seneca's De Providentia and summed up by the aphorism ' calamitas virtutis occasio ...
... turn to Hesiod's maxim on the uphill path to virtue ( Op . 290 ) . | With his new - found conviction the poet next develops a Stoic doctrine expounded in Seneca's De Providentia and summed up by the aphorism ' calamitas virtutis occasio ...
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... turn from literary criticism to social history they understand that works of imagination sometimes provide unique insights and sometimes lay particular traps . Mr Griffin is aware of the complexities in his interesting book , but it is ...
... turn from literary criticism to social history they understand that works of imagination sometimes provide unique insights and sometimes lay particular traps . Mr Griffin is aware of the complexities in his interesting book , but it is ...
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... turn next to 163 percussus . The fatal wounding of Achilles seems an appropriate epic theme , and percutere an appropriate verb ( cf. 15. 66 ' vel quo Tydides percussit pondere coxam ' ) ; but one aspect causes doubt . The duel between ...
... turn next to 163 percussus . The fatal wounding of Achilles seems an appropriate epic theme , and percutere an appropriate verb ( cf. 15. 66 ' vel quo Tydides percussit pondere coxam ' ) ; but one aspect causes doubt . The duel between ...
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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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