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Grattius - Hunting an Augustan Poet (Hardcover)
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Grattius - Hunting an Augustan Poet (Hardcover)
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Grattius' Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs,
is the author's only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an
incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his
Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan
period, and yet while his literary contemporaries have been and
continue to be subjects of academic scrutiny, Grattius is seldom
read and remains almost completely unappreciated in classical and
literary scholarship. This volume is the first book-length study of
Grattius in English or any other language and sets out to
rehabilitate the neglected poet by making him and his work
accessible to a wide audience. Prefaced by an introduction to the
poet and his work, as well as the Latin text of Cynegetica and a
new English translation, it presents a broad collection of
interpretive essays from an international team of scholars. These
essays explore the poem within its literary, intellectual, and
socio-political contexts and look forward to Grattius' (more
charitable) posthumous reception in Europe in the sixteenth to
eighteenth centuries. As a whole they aim to reveal his enduring
relevance for the tradition of didactic poetry and the study of
other Augustan poetry and culture, and to provide an impetus for
future discussions.
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