Inconsistency in Roman Epic : Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan

James J O'Hara

ISBN 10: 052164139X / ISBN 13: 9780521641395

Editore: Cambridge University Press Mai 2007, 2007

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Neuware - How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus' Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Not all inconsistencies can or should be interpreted thematically, but numerous details in these poems, and some ancient and modern theorists, suggest that we can be better readers if we consider how inconsistencies may be functioning in Greek and Roman texts.

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• Titolo: Inconsistency in Roman Epic : Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Mai 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052164139X
• ISBN 13: 9780521641395
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 201 L x 132 A x 15 P (millimetri) 201 millimetri di larghezza per 132 millimetri di altezza per 15 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 295 grammi

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Riassunto

Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics.

Informazioni sull?autore

James J. O'Hara is George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid (1990) and True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (1996), as well as numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature.