Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography

by David Levene, D. P. Nelis

Overview

The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day.
In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on — or reacted against — the historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems
from Horace’s Odes to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004117822
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/26/2001
Series:	Mnemosyne, Supplements Series , #224
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

D.S. Levene, Ph.D. (1989) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. He has published a variety of works on Latin historiography and rhetoric, including Religion in Livy (Brill, 1993).
D.P. Nelis, Ph.D. (1988) in Classics, Queen's University of Belfast, is Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Vergil and Apollonius: the Aeneid and the Argonautica (Leeds 2001).