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The Art of Love celebrates the bi-millennium of Ovid's cycle of
sophisticated and subversive didactic poems on love, traditionally
assumed to have been brought to completion around AD 2. Ars
Amatoria (The Art of Love) and Remedia Amoris (Cures for Love),
which purport to teach young Roman men and women how to be good
lovers, were partly responsible for the poet's exile from Rome
under the emperor Augustus. None the less they exerted great
influence over ancient and later love poetry. This is the first
collection in English devoted to the poems, and brings together
many of the leading figures in the field of Latin literature and
Ovidian studies from the British Isles, Germany, Italy, and the
United States. It offers a range of perspectives on the poetics,
politics, and erotics of the poems, beginning with a critical
survey of recent research, and concluding with papers on the
ancient, medieval, and modern reception of the poems.
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical
overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get
here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an
extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these
questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field,
but to give snapshots of the discipline from different
perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The
Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with
Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas
of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin
literature within its global context from late antiquity to
Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE
corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history,
philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought,
Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception,
intertextuality, theory).
This volume brings together some of the best and most influential
work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger in recent
decades. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary
aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the nineteen classic
articles included here offer a wide and representative range of
approaches to Pliny, from prosopography and social history to
intertextuality and self-representation. Topics include Pliny's
villas, friends, and career, alongside literary and historical
readings of some of his most famous letters, such as those on the
eruption of Vesuvius and the torture of Christians, and
correspondence with and about his wife Calpurnia, his uncle Pliny
the Elder, his rival Regulus, the historian Tacitus and the emperor
Trajan. The volume includes several chapters currently out of print
or scarcely available (such as Birley's on Pliny's career and Eco's
on the first Vesuvius letter), one which has been wholely rewritten
(Cameron on reception) and one newly translated from German (Schenk
on intertextuality). In addition, most have been updated by their
authors, and translations of all Latin and other foreign languages
have been added. A substantial introductory chapter by the editors
offers the first full account of the history of scholarship on the
Epistles from the birth of printing to the present day, summarises
important recent work in languages other than English, and
contextualises the articles included within the broader context of
modern approaches to Pliny. Pliny the Younger's ten books of
Epistles have only recently moved into the mainstream of classical
studies from their traditional role as fodder for Latin beginners
or filing cabinet for Roman historians. This volume marks and
consolidates that shift by reprinting nineteen of the best and most
influential contributions on Pliny and his Epistles from recent
decades, newly edited, revised and/or translated into English. It
begins with a new, substantial account of the history of Plinian
scholarship and survey of the contemporary scholarly landscape.
Together this collection offers a detailed study of the man, the
events of his time, his career, his friends, even his possessions,
and above all the varied artistic and ideological facets of his
letters.
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