Clio and the poets : Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography / / edited by D.S. Levene and D.P. Nelis.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 224
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Levene, D. S.; Nelis, Damien.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224.
• Physical Description: xv, 396 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Clio exclusa 1. -- C. J. Classen -- 2. Propertius the Historian (3.3.1-12)?25 -- Francis Cairns -- 3. Actium and Teutoburg: Augustan Victory and Defeat -- in Vergil and Tacitus45 -- V. E. Pagdn -- 4. Stepping Out of the Ring: Repetition and Sacrifice in -- the Boxing Match in Aeneid 561 -- Andrew Feldherr -- 5. Archaism and Historicism in Horace's Odes81 -- Ellen O'Gorman -- 6. Ab inferis: Historiography in Horace's Odes103 -- Cynthia Damon -- 7. Vergil's Italy: Ethnography and Politics in First-century -- Rome123 -- Cliford Ando -- 8. Roman Archaeology in Vergil's Arcadia (Vergil Eclogue 4; -- Aeneid 8; Livy 1.7)143 -- Marko Marincict -- 9. Ovid's Metamorphoses and Universal History163 -- Stephen M. Wheeler -- 10. The Historian in Ovid. The Roman History of -- Metamorphoses 14-15191 -- Philip Hardie -- 11. The Alban Kings in the Metamorphoses: an Ovidian -- Catalogue and its Historiographical Models211 -- Stratis Kyriakidis -- 12. The Fall of Troy: Between Tradition and Genre231 -- Andreola Rossi -- 13. Epic Encounters? Ancient Historical Battle Narratives -- and the Epic Tradition253 -- Rhiannon Ash -- 14. The Structure of Livy's First Pentad and the Augustan -- Poetry Book275 -- Ann Vasaly -- 15. A Varronian Vatic Numa?: Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's -- Life of N uma291 -- Molly Pasco-Pranger -- 16. The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of -- Augustan Rome313 -- Hans-Friedrich Mueller -- 17. History, Poetry, and Annales331 -- T' P. Wiseman -- Bibliography363 -- Index of passages discussed381 -- General Index388 -- List of Contributors395.