Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations

Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Ancient literary criticism and generic boundaries
in Rome......Page 12
Modern genre theory and the interpenetration of
generic boundaries......Page 17
The papers in this volume......Page 22
Bibliography......Page 25
General......Page 28
I General......Page 30
II Hexameters......Page 31
III Elegiacs......Page 35
IV Lyric......Page 40
V Drama......Page 41
Bibliography......Page 44
1 Introduction......Page 46
2 A Parable from the Natural Sciences......Page 47
3 Parable and Literary Genre......Page 49
4 Livius Andronicus’ Odusia......Page 50
5 Cicero, Solon, and translation of the law......Page 57
6 Imago: material translations of the past......Page 59
7 Envoi. Discontinuity and discontent......Page 62
Bibliography......Page 63
Carole Newlands:
Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry......Page 66
Bibliography......Page 87
Therese Fuhrer:
Hypertexts and Auxiliary Texts: New Genres in Late Antiquity?......Page 90
Bibliography......Page 98
Epic and Didactic......Page 102
Katharina Volk: The Genre of Cicero’s De consulatu suo......Page 104
1. Kreuzung der Gattungen......Page 105
2. Cicero the Protagonist, Cicero the Poet......Page 110
3. Cedant arma togae......Page 116
Bibliography......Page 121
Robert Cowan:
Fear and Loathing in Lucretius: Latent Tragedy and Anti-Allusion
in DRN 3......Page 124
How to do things with genres: appropriation,
rejection and aemulatio......Page 127
Three steps to anti-allusion: latent myth,
paratragedy, and the anti-pun......Page 132
Three last thoughts: more (anti‐)tragic imagery,
quotation, and the limits of anti-allusion......Page 137
Bibliography......Page 141
1 Introduction......Page 146
2 The Genre of the Commentarius......Page 147
3 The Caesarean Model......Page 149
4 ‘Pharsalia Nostra’......Page 151
5 The Circumvallation at Dyrrachium......Page 155
6 Scaeva......Page 158
7 Endings......Page 159
Bibliography......Page 160
Marco Fantuzzi:
Achilles and the improba virgo:
Ovid, Ars am. 1.681–704 and Statius, Ach. 1.514–35 on Achilles
at Scyros......Page 162
Bibliography......Page 178
Stephen Hinds:
Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae......Page 180
Claudianism: poetry across languages......Page 182
Claudianism: cosmic dualism......Page 185
Claudianism: gigantomachy......Page 191
Claudianism: (curbs on) rhetorical inflation......Page 193
Claudianism: epithalamium......Page 194
(i) epic (dis)closure: nomen omen?......Page 197
(ii) closure and continuation: epic end(lessness)......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 202
Philip Hardie:
Shepherds’ Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 212
Pastoral......Page 214
Theodore D. Papanghelis:
Too Much Semiotics will Spoil the Genre:
The Pastoral Unscription in Virgil, Ecl. 10.53–4......Page 216
Bibliography......Page 225
Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou:
Virgil’s Eclogue 4.60–3: A Space of Generic Enrichment......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 240
Evangelos Karakasis:
Comedy and Elegy in Calpurnian Pastoral: ‘Generic Interplays’
in Calp. 3......Page 242
Methodological remarks: pastoral vs. elegy......Page 243
The introductory narrative......Page 245
Lycidas’ account of his erotic plight;
Iollas’ reaction......Page 251
Lycidas’ song......Page 256
Musical excellence......Page 259
Beauty......Page 260
Wealth......Page 261
Repentance......Page 263
Gifts......Page 264
Threats for suicide......Page 266
The concluding narrative......Page 268
Menander’s Perikeiromene......Page 269
Conclusions......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 272
Other Poetic Genres......Page 276
Stavros Frangoulidis: Transformations of Paraclausithyron in Plautus’ Curculio......Page 278
Bibliography......Page 291
Frances Muecke:
The Invention of Satire: A Paradigmatic Case?......Page 294
Bibliography......Page 304
Kirk Freudenburg:
The Afterlife of Varro in Horace’s Sermones:
Generic Issues in Roman Satire......Page 308
In the cause of Roman eruditio: Lucilius and Varro
in Quintilian book 10......Page 309
Varro on the question of satire’s origins......Page 312
Varro and Horace on the dramatic origins of satire......Page 317
Cynic Lucilius and Lucilian Varro: clean categories
in messy practice......Page 320
Varro’s satires in book 2 of Horace’s Sermones......Page 324
Taking up with satire’s theatrical side:
the Varronian dramatist of Horace’s Sermones 2.3......Page 331
Horace’s ‘Plautus problem,’ with further
implications for Varro and satire’s dramatic
origins......Page 338
Conclusion: finding ‘us’ in the search for ‘ours’......Page 343
Bibliography......Page 345
Richard Hunter:
One Verse of Mimnermus?
Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy......Page 348
Bibliography......Page 359
Stratis Kyriakidis:
The Poet’s Afterlife: Ovid between Epic and Elegy......Page 362
Bibliography......Page 376
Stephen J. Harrison:
Didactic and Lyric in Horace Odes 2: Lucretius and Vergil......Page 378
(i) Horace and the Lucretian rejection of materialism –
2.16 and 2.18......Page 379
(ii) Horace and the Lucretian attitude to death – 2.14 and 2.20......Page 381
(iii) Horace and the Lucretian inspired poet – 2.19......Page 384
2 Vergil, Georgics......Page 385
(i) Horace and Vergil on Bacchus......Page 386
(ii) Horace and Vergil on civil war and Augustan conquests......Page 389
(iii) Horace and Vergil on the Underworld......Page 392
(iv) Conclusion......Page 394
Bibliography......Page 395
Prose......Page 396
Roy K. Gibson:
Letters into Autobiography: The Generic Mobility of the Ancient Letter
Collection......Page 398
The Ancient Arrangement and Modern
Re-arrangement of Latin Letter Collections......Page 401
Letters into Biography and History......Page 403
Ideological and Historical Contexts (1):
Cicero, ad Familiares......Page 405
Ideological and Historical Contexts (2):
Paulinus, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome......Page 411
Ideological and Historical Contexts (3):
Cicero ad Familiares, Ad Atticum, Fronto......Page 416
Letters as Biography......Page 421
Bibliography......Page 425
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus:
Is historia a Genre?
(With Notes on Caesar’s First Landing in Britain, BG 4.24–5)......Page 428
Bibliography......Page 441
Introduction......Page 444
Tiberius’ Satirical Letter......Page 447
Conclusion......Page 456
Bibliography......Page 457
David Konstan:
Apollonius King of Tyre: Between Novel and New Comedy......Page 460
Bibliography......Page 465
Notes on Contributors......Page 466
Index Locorum......Page 472
General Index......Page 482