Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire generic interactions / edited by John F. Miller and A.J. Woodman.
| Other author | Miller, John F., 1950- |
| Other author | Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, |
| Description | ix, 248 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 0169-8958 ; v. 321 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 321. ^A492133 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. ^A1054561 |
| Contents | Introduction / John F. Miller & A.J. Woodman -- Crowds and leaders in imperial historiography and in epic / Philip Hardie -- Causation in post-Augustan epic / Bruce Gibson -- Too close? historian and poet in the Apocolocyntosis / Cynthia Damon -- Cannibalising history: Livian moments in Statius' Thebaid / Helen Lovatt -- Replacing history: inaugurating the new year in Statius, Siluae 4.1 / Jean-Michel Hulls -- The eruption of Vesuvius in the epistles of Statius and Pliny / Carole Newlands -- From Sallust to Silius Italicus: metus hostilis and the fall of Rome in the Punica / John Jacobs -- Rhoxolani blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian ethnography revisited / Rhiannon Ash -- Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus' repetition of Virgil's Wars (Histories 3.26-34) / Timothy A. Joseph -- Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the works of Juvenal and Tacitus / Kathryn Williams -- The unfortunate marriage of Gaius Silius: Tacitus and Juvenal on the fall of Messalina / Christopher Nappa -- The figure of Seneca in Tacitus and the Octavia / Matthew Taylor. |
| General note | Papers presented at the "Proxima poetis: Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire" conference, held at the University of Virginia on April 11-12, 2008. |
| General note | Sequel to: Clio and the poets (Brill, 2002). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010029751 |
| ISBN | 9789004177550 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004177558 (alk. paper) |
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