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The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into
varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman
authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic
purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor and
major writers in the Latin literary canon, including the anonymous
poems, Ciris and Aetna, and an elegy from the Tibullan corpus by
the female poet, Sulpicia. Major figures include the Augustan
poets, Vergil and Horace, and the late antique Christian
theologian, Augustine. The method of analysis employed in the
essays is uniformly interdisciplinary and reveals the depth of the
engagement of each ancient author with major preoccupations of
Epicurean thought, such as the balanced pursuit of erotic pleasure
in the context of human flourishing and the role of the gods in
relation to human existence. The ensemble of nuanced
interpretations testifies to the immense vitality of the Epicurean
philosophical tradition throughout Greco-Roman antiquity and
thereby provides a welcome and substantial contribution to the
burgeoning field of reception studies.
This book collects essays and other contributions by colleagues,
students, and friends of the late Diskin Clay, reflecting the
unusually broad range of his interests. Clay's work in ancient
philosophy, and particularly in Epicurus and Epicureanism and in
Plato, is reflected chapters on Epicurean concerns by Andre Laks,
David Sedley and Martin Ferguson Smith, as well as Jed Atkins on
Lucretius and Leo Strauss; Michael Erler contributes a chapter on
Plato. James Lesher discusses Xenophanes and Sophocles, and Aryeh
Kosman contributes a jeu d'esprit on the obscure Pythagorean
Ameinias. Greek cultural history finds multidisciplinary treatment
in Rebecca Sinos's study of Archilochus' Heros and the Parian
Relief, Frank Romer's mythographic essay on Aphrodite's origins and
archaic mythopoieia more generally, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou's
explication of Callimachus's kenning of Mt. Athos as "ox-piercing
spit of your mother Arsinoe." More purely literary interests are
pursued in chapters on ancient Greek (Joseph Russo on Homer, Dirk
Obbink on Sappho), Latin (Jenny Strauss Clay and Gregson Davis on
Horace), and post-classical poetry (Helen Hadzichronoglou on
Cavafy, John Miller on Robert Pinsky and Ovid). Peter Burian
contributes an essay on the possibility and impossibility of
translating Aeschylus. In addition to these essays, two original
poems (Rosanna Warren and Jeffrey Carson) and two pairs of
translations (from Horace by Davis and from Foscolo by Burian)
recognize Clay's own activity as poet and translator. The volume
begins with an Introduction discussing Clay's life and work, and
concludes with a bibliography of Clay's publications.
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic
is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This
volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished
international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of
Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic.
It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and
views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosopher of the
day, and Lucretius, foremost among the representatives and
supporters of Epicureanism at the time. Throughout the volume, the
impact of such disparate reception on the part of these leading
authors is explored in a way that illuminates the popularity as
well as the controversy attached to the followers of Epicurus in
Italy, ranging from ethical and political concerns to the
understanding of scientific and celestial phenomena.
Aime Cesaire is arguably the best-known poet in the French
Caribbean. His poetry and drama have established his formidable
reputation as the leading francophone poet and elder statesman of
the twentieth century. In this study Gregson Davis examines the
evolution of Cesaire's poetic career and his involvement with many
of the most seminal political and aesthetic movements of the
twentieth century. Davis relates Cesaire's extraordinary dual
career as writer and elected politician to the recurrent themes in
his writings. As one of the most profound critics of colonialism,
Cesaire, the acknowledged inventor of the famous term 'negritude',
has been a hugely influential figure in shaping the contemporary
discourse on the postcolonial predicament. Gregson Davis's account
of Cesaire's intellectual growth is grounded in a careful reading
of the poetry, prose and drama that illustrates the full range and
depth of his literary achievement.
Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au
pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding
text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a
new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive
commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Cesaire's surrealist
masterpiece.
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Virgil's Eclogues (Paperback)
Virgil; Translated by Len Krisak; Introduction by Gregson Davis
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Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil,
was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire--a friend
to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful
patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the
"Aeneid," he wrote two other collections of poems: the "Georgics"
and the "Bucolics," or "Eclogues."The "Eclogues" were Virgil's
first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three
years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty.
Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the
"Georgics" and culminates in the "Aeneid," they are no less elegant
in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive
works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea
of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix
political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in
musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent
Western poetry.Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation
captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing
rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather
than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with
the original Latin, "Virgil's Eclogues" also features an
introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in
the time in which they were created.
Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au
pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding
text of the Negritude movement. This bilingual edition features a
new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive
commentary, making it a magisterial edition of Cesaire's surrealist
masterpiece.
Aime Cesaire is arguably the best-known poet in the French
Caribbean. His poetry and drama have established his formidable
reputation as the leading francophone poet and elder statesman of
the twentieth century. In this study Gregson Davis examines the
evolution of Cesaire's poetic career and his involvement with many
of the most seminal political and aesthetic movements of the
twentieth century. Davis relates Cesaire's extraordinary dual
career as writer and elected politician to the recurrent themes in
his writings. As one of the most profound critics of colonialism,
Cesaire, the acknowledged inventor of the famous term 'negritude',
has been a hugely influential figure in shaping the contemporary
discourse on the postcolonial predicament. Gregson Davis's account
of Cesaire's intellectual growth is grounded in a careful reading
of the poetry, prose and drama that illustrates the full range and
depth of his literary achievement.
Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horace’s Odes, in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross, make the “commonplace notable, even luminous.” This edition reproduces the highly lauded translation by James Michie. “For almost forty years,” poet and literary critic John Hollander notes, “James Michie’s brilliant translations of Horace have remained fresh as well as strong, and responsive to the varying lights and darks of the originals. It is a pleasure to have them newly available.”
Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their
rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent
trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and
deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical
strategies--what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication,
consolation, and praise and dispraise--Davis produces enlightening,
new interpretations of this classic work. Polyhymnia, named after
one of the Muses invoked in Horace's opening poem, revises the
common image of Horace as a complacent, uncomplicated, and
basically superficial singer. Focusing on the artistic persona--the
lyric "self" that is constituted in the text--Davis explores how
the lyric speaker constructs subtle "arguments" whose
building-blocks are topoi, recurrent motifs, and generic
conventions. By examining the substructure of lyric argument in
groupings of poems sharing similar strategies, the author discloses
the major principles that inform Horatian lyric composition.
The essays collected in this issue offer complementary critical
perspectives on the mature lyric work of Derek Walcott, the
acclaimed Nobel laureate from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
The centerpiece of the ensemble is a previously unpublished essay
in which Walcott's reflections on poetics illuminate his project in
the masterpiece, "Omeros."
Other contributions by literary scholars in North America and the
Caribbean focus on fundamental dimensions of Walcott's craft and on
such thematic preoccupations as the intersection of pictorial and
verbal modes of representation, the deployment of nuanced
intertextual strategies (especially in relation to the Greco-Roman
canon), the invention of a viable artistic identity in a
postcolonial intercultural milieu, and the psychosocial modeling of
the process of literary apprenticeship.
"Contributors. "Edward Baugh, Peter Burian, Gregson Davis, Carol
Dougherty, Joseph Farrell, Judith Harris, Timothy Hofmeister, Derek
Walcott
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