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Studies in Latin Poetry

ISBN: 9780521124584 | 0521124581
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 12/10/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
A volume dedicated to studies in Latin poetry, beginning with an examination of Saturnian verse and ending with an investigation into how much Ovid actually knew of the law, and how he exploited this knowledge with piquancy and inventiveness in his writings.

This volumes begins with a long essay on the nature and structure of Saturnian verse. This is followed by two studies of Plautus (the Menaechmi seen as a comedy of errors and the prologue of the Poenulus as an editor's conflation of several scripts). There is a... MORE
The Saturnian verse
The Menaechmi: Roman comedy of errors
Imperator histricus
Nine epigrams from Pompeii
Obscura de re lucida carmina: science and poetry in De Rerum Natura
Catullus 64 and the Heroic age
Bacchus and the Horatian recusatio
Two Horatian proems: Carm. 1.26 and 1.32
Ovid and the law
Tabl... MORE


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