Roman Epic: An Interpretative Introduction (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The author�s approach to Roman epic is interpretative; the reader is invited to study a choice of typical texts, from the beginnings to the end of Antiquity. Famous poets are given the attention they deserve, but also some minor authors are discovered as precious �missing links� between the ages. Special heed is paid to intertextual relationships between different epochs, cultures, literary genres, linguistic and literary patterns. The book is meant for students and teachers of classical and modern literatures, but also for all those interested in the history of literary genres and cultural ideas. - CONTENTS -- Introduction: Intertextuality and Rhetoric. Roman Epic Poet and Their Readers -- Livius Andronicus: Inuentio. The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language Naevius: Dispositio. The Clash of Myth and History Ennius: Elocutio. A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures. A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society -- Virgil: -- Prooemium. The Poet and His Reader. The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid -- Narratio. Aeneas� Account of his Flight -- Inuentio I. Virgil�s View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes (Aen. 6. 679-899) -- Inuentio II. Turnus, a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle -- Dispositio. Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence -- Elocutio I. Virgil�s Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid -- Elocutio II. On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid Ovid: Inuentio. Ovid and His Readers -- Prooemium. Ovid�s Arachne and Human Creativity -- Elocutio. Similes in Ovid�s Metamorphoses and Their Functions -- Clash of Genres. Gods and Religion in Ovid�s Metamorphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy -- Clash of Systems of Values. The Daughters of Anius -- Albinovanus Pedo: Elocutio and Defamiliarization -- The Thrill of a First Experience -- Cornelius Severus: Death and Poetic Survival of -- Oratory -- Lucan: The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric -- Valerius Flaccus: Elocutio. The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle -- Statius: The Futility of Rhetoric. Achilles under the Spell of Beauty (Achilleid 1. 242-396) -- Silius Italicus: -- Intertextuality as Guiding Principle of Invention -- From Elegy to Epic. Claudia Quinta: Beauty under -- False Suspicion -- Claudian: Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality. Proserpina's Tapestry . -- Corippus: Transformation of Epic Imagery. ISBN 9789004112926