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
• TeilnehmendeR: Levene, D. S.; Nelis, Damien.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999.

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.

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.