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Fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 286 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0954384563. Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Light pencil marginalia to a few pages. Light soiling to DJ with minor creasing along top edge.; 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. Contents: PART 1: FRAMING EPICS: EPIC, DIDACTIC AND RELATED GENRES. 1. Getting the measure of heroes: The dactylic hexameter and its detractors-Llewelyn Morgan; 2. Politian's Ambra and reading epic didactically-Andrew Laird; 3. The story of us: A narratological analysis of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura-Monica Gale; 4. From didactic to epic: Georgics 2.458-3.48-Damien Nelis. PART II: GENRE AND TRADITION: VIRGIL AND AFTER. 5. Virgil's Corycius senex and Nicander's Georgica: Georgics 4.116-148-Stephen Harrison; 6. Tradition and originality: Allusion in Valerius Flaccus' Lemnian episode-Ray Clare; 7. The repetitions of Hypsipyle-Bruce Gibson; 8. Claudian: The epic poet in the prefaces-Catherine Ware. PART III: RECEPTIONS: REINVENTING CLASSICAL EPIC. 9. Approaching Christian epic: The preface of Juvencus-Roger Green; 10. Virgilian imperialism, original sin and Fracastoro's Syphilis-Philip Hardie; 11. The Aeneid and twentieth-century Welsh poetry-Ceri Davies; 320 pages.
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