Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire generic interactions / edited by John F. Miller and A.J. Woodman.

SeriesMnemosyne 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 notePapers 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 noteSequel to: Clio and the poets (Brill, 2002).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index.
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