Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality

Cover
Title page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Genre, tradition and individuality
PART 1: FRAMING EPICS: EPIC, DIDACTIC AND RELATED GENRES
	1. Getting the measure of heroes: The dactylic hexameter and its detractors
	2. Politian\'s Ambra and reading epic didactically
	3. The story of us: A narratological analysis of Lucretius\' De Rerum Natura
	4. From didactic to epic: Georgics 2.458 - 3.48
PART II: GENRE AND TRADITION: VIRGIL AND AFTER
	5. Virgil\'s Corycius senex and Nicander\'s Georgica: Georgics 4.116-148
	6. Tradition and originality: Allusion in Valerius Flaccus\' Lemnian episode
	7. The repetitions of Hypsipyle
	8. Claudian: The epic poet in the prefaces
PART III: RECEPTIONS: REINVENTING CLASSICAL EPIC
	9. Approaching Christian epic: The preface of Juvencus
	10. Virgilian imperialism, original sin and Fracastoro\'s Syphilis
	11. The Aeneid and twentieth-century Welsh poetry
Index Locorum
General Index