Latin Poets and Italian Gods / / Elaine Fantham.
Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Ju...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Robson Classical Lectures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I. Honouring the Italian Gods
- 1. Rustica Numina: The Country Gods of Italy and Their Reception in Roman Poetry
- 2. Virgil's Gods of the Land
- 3. Ovid's Fasti and the Local Gods of the City
- PART II. Counter-Examples, and the Triumph of Artistry over Fading Devotion
- Introduction to Part II
- 4. Ovidian Variations: From Friendly Flora to Lewd Salmacis and Angry Acheloüs
- 5. Gods in a Man-made Landscape: Priapus
- 6. Gods in Statian Settings
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Principal Passages Discussed