Research Catalog

Title

Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire : generic interactions / edited by John F. Miller and A.J. Woodman.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Miller, John F., 1950-
• Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945-

Description

ix, 248 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 0169-8958 ; v. 321

Uniform Title

• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 321.
• Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.

Subjects

• Rome > Historiography > Congresses
• History in literature > Congresses
• Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism > Congresses
• Literature and history > Rome > Congresses
• Historical poetry, Latin > History and criticism > Congresses
• Rome > In literature > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at the "Proxima poetis: Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire" conference, held at the University of Virginia on April 11-12, 2008.
• Sequel to: Clio and the poets (Brill, 2002).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index.

Contents

Introduction / John F. Miller & A.J. Woodman -- Crowds and leaders in imperial historiography and in epic / Philip Hardie -- Causation in post-Augustan epic / Bruce Gibson -- Too close? historian and poet in the Apocolocyntosis / Cynthia Damon -- Cannibalising history: Livian moments in Statius' Thebaid / Helen Lovatt -- Replacing history: inaugurating the new year in Statius, Siluae 4.1 / Jean-Michel Hulls -- The eruption of Vesuvius in the epistles of Statius and Pliny / Carole Newlands -- From Sallust to Silius Italicus: metus hostilis and the fall of Rome in the Punica / John Jacobs -- Rhoxolani blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian ethnography revisited / Rhiannon Ash -- Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus' repetition of Virgil's Wars (Histories 3.26-34) / Timothy A. Joseph -- Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the works of Juvenal and Tacitus / Kathryn Williams -- The unfortunate marriage of Gaius Silius: Tacitus and Juvenal on the fall of Messalina / Christopher Nappa -- The figure of Seneca in Tacitus and the Octavia / Matthew Taylor.

Call Number

JFE 10-6551

ISBN

• 9789004177550 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004177558 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010029751

OCLC

651153716

Title

Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire : generic interactions / edited by John F. Miller and A.J. Woodman.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series

Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 0169-8958 ; v. 321

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 321.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index.

Added Author

Miller, John F., 1950-

Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945-

Research Call Number

JFE 10-6551