Augustan poetry and the irrational /

'Augustan Poetry and the Irrational', with contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars, examines the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and als...

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Introduction: Augustan poetry and the irrational /
Civil war: expiation and the return of the repressed --
My enemy's enemy is my enemy: Virgil's illogical use of metus hostilis /
Orestes, Aeneas, and Augustus: madness and tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid /
The night of reason: the Esquiline and witches in Horace /
Order and disorder: counting and accounts --
Beyond 'cosmos' and 'logos': an irrational cosmology in Virgil, Georgics 1.231-58? /
The magic of counting: on the cantatoric status of poetry (Catullus 5 and 7; Horace Odes 1.11) /
Under the influence: Maecenas and Bacchus in Georgics 2 /
Reason and desire --
Apollo in Tibullus 2.3 and 2.5 /
The ars rhetorica: an Ovidian remedium for female furor? /
Augustan gothic: Alexander Pope reads Ovid /
The madness of elegy: rationalizing Propertius /
Self-contradictions: philosophy and rhetoric --
The value of self-deception: Horace, Aristippus, Heraclides Ponticus, and the pleasures of the fool (and of the poet) /
Irrational panegyric in Augustan Poetry /
Virgilian figures of the irrational --
Caderent omnes a crinibus hydri: the problems of the irrational in the Juno and Allecto Episode in Aeneid 7 /
Adamastor and the epic poet's dark continent /
1. Verfasser:
Hardie, Philip R.
Weitere Verfasser:
Hardie, Philip R. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
'Augustan Poetry and the Irrational', with contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars, examines the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explores elements of post-classical reception.
Umfang:
1 online resource
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-179225-X
Schlagworte:
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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