Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry /

Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry / / ed. by Stavros Frangoulidis, Stephen J. Harrison.

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narrati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Batstone, William W.,
Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline,
Feldherr, Andrew M.,
Frangoulidis, Stavros,
Gibson, Roy,
Harrison, Stephen,
Heyworth, S.J.,
Keith, Alison,
Konstan, David,
Laird, Andrew,
Manuwald, Gesine,
Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia,
Sharrock, Alison,
Slater, Niall W.,
Spentzou, Efrossini,
Williams, Gareth,
Wray, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Frangoulidis, Stavros,
Harrison, Stephen J.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 329 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Prologue
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry
  • Part I: Roman Elegy
  • Propertius and the Unstructured Self
  • Love and Death in Propertius 1.10, 1.13 and 2.15: Poetic and Polemical Games with Lucretius, Gallus and Virgil
  • From Grave to Rave: Reading ‘Reality’ in Propertius 4.7 and 4.8
  • Place and Meaning in Tibullus, Lygdamus, Sulpicia
  • Sulpicia and the Speech of Men
  • Ovid’s Literary Entrance: Propertian and Horatian Traces?
  • Part II: Augustan and Neronian Epic
  • Till Death do us Part … or Join: Love beyond Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • Death and Life in Lucan
  • Part III: Historiography-Lyric Poetry, Erotic Epistolography and Epigram
  • The Music of Time: Sallust’s Sempronia (Cat. 25) and Horace’s Lyce (Odes 4.13)
  • Against Aesthetic Distance: Ovid, Proust, and the Hedonic Impulse
  • Epicurean Philosophical Perspectives in (and on) [Vergil] Catalepton 5
  • Part IV: Roman Drama and Novel
  • Aphrodisia and the Poenulus of Plautus: The Case of Agorastocles
  • Stoic Moral Perfectionism and the Queer Art of Failure: Toward a Theory of Senecan Tragedy
  • Resurrection Woman: Love, Death and (After)Life in Petronius’s Widow of Ephesus
  • Part V: Reception
  • Love and Death in Renaissance Latin Bucolic: The Chronis and its Origins (Biblioteca Nacional de México Ms. 1631)
  • The Pope as Arsonist and Christian Salvation: Peter Causton’s Londini Conflagratio: Carmen
  • Many Un/happy Returns from Eurydice
  • Publications by Theodore D. Papanghelis
  • Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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