Poetics Of The First Punic War

Author : Thomas Biggs
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132133

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Poetics of the First Punic War by Thomas Biggs Pdf

Poetics of the First Punic War investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. From its original role in the Middle Republic as the narrative proving ground for epic’s development out of verse historiography, to its striking cultural reuse during the Augustan and Flavian periods, the First Punic War (264–241 BCE) holds an underappreciated place in the history of Latin literature. Because of the serendipitous meeting of historical content and poetic form in the third century BCE, a textualized First Punic War went on to shape the Latin language and its literary genres, the practices and politics of remembering war, popular visions of Rome as a cultural capital, and numerous influential conceptions of Punic North Africa. Poetics of the First Punic War combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various “texts” of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus. This book also contains sustained treatment of Naevius’ fragmentary Bellum Punicum (Punic War) and Livius Andronicus’ Odusia (Odyssey), some of the earliest works of Latin poetry. As the tradition’s primary Roman topic, the First Punic War is forever bound to these poems, which played a decisive role in transmitting an epic view of history.

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000351767

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Latin Poetry and Its Reception by C. W. Marshall Pdf

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All chapters reflect the wide research interests of Professor Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated. Latin Poetry and Its Reception assembles a blend of senior scholars and new voices in Latin literary studies. It makes important contributions to the understanding of kingship in Hellenistic and Roman thought, with the first four chapters dedicated to exploring this theme in Republican poetry, Virgil, Seneca, and Statius. Chapters focusing on the modern reception include case studies from the 16th to the 21st century, with discussions on Gavin Douglas, Edward Gibbon, Herman Melville, Igor Stravinsky, and Elena Ferrante, among others. No comparable volume provides a similar range. Latin Poetry and Its Reception will appeal to all scholars of Latin poetry and classical reception, from senior undergraduates to scholars in classics and other disciplines.

Author : Christiane Reitz,Simone Finkmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 2756 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110492590

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Structures of Epic Poetry by Christiane Reitz,Simone Finkmann Pdf

This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

Author : Antony Augoustakis,R. Joy Littlewood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192534835

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Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination by Antony Augoustakis,R. Joy Littlewood Pdf

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.

Author : Martin T. Dinter,Charles Guérin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009327794

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Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome by Martin T. Dinter,Charles Guérin Pdf

Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This volume brings together distinguished classicists from a variety of sub-disciplines to explore cultural memory in the Roman Republic and the Age of Augustus. It provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the intersection between cultural memory theory and ancient Rome, whilst also appealing to the seasoned scholar. The chapters delve deep into memory theory, going beyond the canonical texts of Jan Assmann and Pierre Nora and pushing their terminology towards Basu's dispositifs, Roller's intersignifications, Langlands' sites of exemplarity, and Erll's horizons. This innovative framework enables a fresh analysis of both fragmentary texts and archaeological phenomena not discussed elsewhere.

Author : B. Dexter Hoyos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 3110155648

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Unplanned Wars by B. Dexter Hoyos Pdf

Attempts to reconstruct the reasons why the Romans and the Carthaginians engaged in long and damaging wars with each other despite prosperous periods of alliance. Relying on ancient sources such as the accounts of Polybius, Livy, and Diodorous, the author discusses the period from the antecedents to the First Punic War of 264 B.C.E. to the war-declaration of 218 B.C.E. Arguing that the reasons for the two wars were intertwined, he contends that the outcomes of the wars differ markedly from the original aims of the great powers. Neither side, according to the author, sought war with the other, but war resulted from misunderstandings and miscalculations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : William Young Sellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Fore-edge painting
ISBN : PRNC:32101064069337

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The Roman Poets of the Republic by William Young Sellar Pdf

Author : Micah Young Myers,Erika Zimmermann Damer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000427455

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Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry by Micah Young Myers,Erika Zimmermann Damer Pdf

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome’s far-reaching empire. The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume’s discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The collection as a whole offers important insights into Roman poetics and into ancient notions of movement and geographical space. Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry will be of interest to specialists in Latin poetry, ancient travel, and Latin epigraphy as well as to those studying travel writing, geography, imperialism, and mobility in other periods. The chapters are written to be accessible to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.

Author : John Francis Lazenby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1857281365

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The First Punic War by John Francis Lazenby Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Giulio Celotto
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132874

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Amor Belli by Giulio Celotto Pdf

Examines Lucan's literary adaptation of the cosmological dialectic of Love and Strife

Author : Alan J. M. Haffa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89063071153

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The Cultural Poetics of Supplication in Epic by Alan J. M. Haffa Pdf

Author : John Miller,Anthony Woodman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047430995

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Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire by John Miller,Anthony Woodman Pdf

This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), examines the inter-relationships between Latin poetry and historiography in the first century AD.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Art, Classical
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3312

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith Pdf

Author : W. Y. Sellar
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547611189

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The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar Pdf

"The Roman Poets of the Republic" by W. Y. Sellar is an insightful exploration of the poetry of the Roman Republic. Sellar's expertise in the subject shines through as he delves into the works of Roman poets and the historical context in which they were written. This book serves as an invaluable resource for literature enthusiasts and scholars, offering a comprehensive analysis of the poetic treasures of ancient Rome. Sellar's scholarly approach and passion for the subject make this work a must-read for those interested in the poetry of the Roman Republic.

Author : Traianos Gagos,Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042258098

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Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas by Traianos Gagos,Roger S. Bagnall Pdf

This collection of nine essays is focused on military and administrative institutions in the ancient world, and supplemented by a presentation of thirty texts in Greek and Latin written on papyrus and wooden fragments, some previously unpublished. The essays and textual editions are contributed by a host of distinguished international scholars in honor of Professor J. David Thomas' seventieth birthday. Professor Thomas (formerly at the University of Durham) has edited a large number of ancient texts over the last fifty years, and his work has been important to our understanding of subjects as diverse as the military strength on Hadrian's Wall and the chain of command in the Egyptian civil service.