Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry - Genre, Tradition and Individuality (Hardcover)

How is it possible for a poet writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic to find his own individual voice? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - see their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven new essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer. Monica Gale is a lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on the poetry of the Late Republican and Augustan periods, with a particular focus on questions of genre and intertextuality.

General

Imprint:	Classical Press of Wales
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	December 2004
Editors:	Monica R. Gale
Contributors:	Llewelyn Morgan • Etc
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-9543845-6-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-9543845-6-3
Barcode:	9780954384562

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