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VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Light blue boards with gilt lettering; dark blue dj, mylar cover; x, 371 pp. This book discusses some works of these poets: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Albinovanus Pedo, Cornelius Severus, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus, Claudian, and Corippus. Contents include: I. Introduction: Intertextuality and Rhetoric. Roman Epic Poets and Their Readers--II. Livius Andronicus: Inuentio. The Rediscovery of the Odyssey and the Invention of a Poetic Language--III. Naevius: Dispositio. The Clash of Myth and History--IV. Ennius: Elocutio. A Horse Simile or A Clash of Two Cultures. A Hellenistic Poet in an Archaic Society--V. Virgil--1. Prooemium. The Poet and His Reader. The Iliad and the Odyssey as Subtexts to the Proem of the Aeneid--2. Narratio. Aeneas' Account of his Flight--3. Inuentio I. Virgil's View of History in the Catalogue of Heroes (Aen. 6. 679-899)--4. Inuentio II. Turnus, a Tragic Hero? Virgil and Aristotle--5. Dispositio. Double Inversion and the Rhetoric of Silence--6. Elocutio I. Virgil's Similes and the Genesis of the Aeneid--7. Elocutio II. On the Use of Tenses in the Aeneid--VI. Ovid--1. Inuentio. Ovid and His Readers--2. Prooemium. Ovid's Arachne and Human Creativity--3. Elocutio. Similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Their Functions--4. Clash of Genres. Gods and Religion in Ovid's Metamorphoses with Special Regard to Venus and Elegy--5. Clash of Systems of Values. The Daughters of Anius--VII. Albinovanus Pedo: Elocutio and Defamiliarization. The Thrill of a First Experience--VIII. Cornelius Severus: Death and Poetic Survival of Oratory--IX. Lucan: The Revival of Epic through Science and Rhetoric--X. Valerius Flaccus: Elocutio. The Myth of Io or the Magic of the Present Participle--XI. Statius: The Futility of Rhetoric. Achilles under the Spell of Beauty (Achilleid 1. 242-396)--XII. Silius Italicus--1. Intertextuality as Guiding Principle of Invention--2. From Elegy to Epic. Claudia Quinta: Beauty under False Suspicion--XIII. Claudian: Poetic Rhetoric and Intertextuality. Proserpina's Tapestry--XIV. Corippus: Transformation of Epic Imagery.
