Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry / / ed. by Phillip Mitsis, Ioannis Ziogas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ash, Rhiannon,; Bexley, Erica,; Connolly, Joy,; Davis, Gregson,; Davis, Peter J.,; Dressler, Alex,; Fitch, John G.,; Fontaine, Michael,; Gowers, Emily,; Hanses, Mathias,; Katz, Joshua T.,; Konstan, David,; Leigh, Matthew,; Lowrie, Michèle,; Malamud, Martha,; McGowan, Matthew M.,; Paschalis, Michael,; Pomeroy, Arthur J.,; Putnam, Michael C. J.,; Reed, Jay,; Ziogas, Ioannis,
• HerausgeberIn: Mitsis, Phillip,; Ziogas, Ioannis,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 452 p.)

The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretation from themselves to their readers. By the same token, it is often difficult to assess their authorial powerplays in the etymologies, puns,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics From Horace to Silius Italicus
• Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos … Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)?
• Nominal Intelligence: Conspiracy, Prosopography, and the Secret of Horace, Odes 2.10
• Another Vergilian Signature in the Georgics?
• Mora in the Aeneid
• Dido and the Owl
• Freudian Bullseyes in Classical Perspective: The Psycholinguistics of Guilt in Virgil’s Aeneid
• Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus
• Violent Retribution and Pietas: The Closure of the Aeneid Revisited
• Freedom of Speech in Virgil and Ovid
• Love’s Letters: an Amor-Roma Telestich at Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.507–10
• Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid
• Pythagoras and Numa in Ovid: Exile and Immortality at Rome
• Lucan’s Caesar and Laelius
• A Theory of Violence in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile
• From Pastoral to Panegyric in Calpurnius Siculus
• Speaking Names in Senecan Drama
• Civil War, the Soul, and the Cosmos at Seneca, Thyestes 547–622: A Tropology
• Doubtful Certainties: The Politics of Reading in Seneca’s Oedipus
• Doubting Domitian’s Divinity: Statius Achilleid 1.1–2
• As if: Reflections on an Exemplary Wife
• Silius Italicus and Greek Epic: Imperial Culture Wars
• List of Contributors
• Publications by Frederick Ahl
• Index of passages discussed
• General Index