Claudian and the Roman epic tradition
Catherine Ware.
Bok Engelsk 2012 Catherine. Ware,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge ; New York : : Cambridge University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (278 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; CLAUDIAN AND THE ROMAN EPIC TRADITION; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; THE POET AND HIS AUDIENCE; INTERTEXTUALITY; CHAPTER 1 Panegyric-epic; THE ART OF PRAISING; CLAUDIAN'S DEBT TO RHETORIC; VIRGIL AND PANEGYRIC-EPIC; CHAPTER 2 Roman epic; NARRATIVE AND STRUCTURE; THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF EPIC; REGES ET PROELIA; THE DIVINE MACHINERY; CLAUDIAN'S CARMEN PERPETUUM; PLAYING WITH GENRE; CHAPTER 3 Defining the empire; THE DIVIDED BROTHERS; THE AMPUTATION OF THE EAST; THE SINGLE RULER; FILIUS DEGENER, FILIUS DIGNUS; CHAPTER 4 Cycles of time. - BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS: THE CIRCULARITY OF TIMECHAPTER 5 Enemies of Roman order; CONTINUITY AND INTERRUPTION: CONCORDIA AND FUROR; POSSESSED BY FUROR: IN RUFINUM; THE COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND; ALARIC: PHAËTHON AND THE GIANTS; ALARIC: EPIC POTENTIAL AND EPIC PARODY; GILDO, ENEMY THROUGH THE AGES; GILDO TYRANNUS; GILDO AND THE SHADOW OF LUCAN; GILDO: THE COSMIC DIMENSION; GILDO: THE SATIRIC TARGET; CLOSURE?; CHAPTER 6 The golden age I; THE ORIGINS OF THE GOLDEN AGE; IMPERIAL PROPAGANDA AND THE GOLDEN AGE: CLAUDIAN AND FLATTERY; AURI FAMES, BELLI RABIES: THE TRUE GOLDEN AGE OF AUGUSTUS?. - THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE GEORGICSFrom Saturn to Jupiter: sacrifice and the individual; Laudes Italiae: the golden age in Italy; Cognoscere: the key to the golden age; Labor and ars; CHAPTER 7 The golden age II; SACRIFICE: MALLIUS THEODORUS; RUFINUS: THE THREAT; STILICHO: LABOR AND WAR; References; Index locorum; General Index. - As the self-styled successor of Virgil, Claudian redefines the world of late antiquity in terms of classical Latin epic.
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| Emner | Claudianus, Claudius - Criticism and interpretation.
Epic poetry, Classical - History and criticism. Epikk Klassisk tid Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 9781107013438
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