David West / Tony Woodman (eds.)

Creative Imitation Latin Liter

Herausgeber: West, David; Woodman, A. J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors analyse passages from various authors to demonstrate how Latin authors created new works of art by imitating earlier literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521226684
• ISBN-10: 0521226686
• Artikelnr.: 23066236

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. De imitatione D. A. Russell
2. Plavtvs vortit barbare: Plautus, Bacchides 526-61 and Menander, Dis exapaton 102-12 David Bain
3. From Polyphemus to Corydon: Virgil, Eclogue 2 and the Idylls of Theocritus Ian M. Lem. Du Quesnay
4. Two plagues: Virgil, Georgics 3.478-566 and Lucretius 6.1090-1286 David West
5. Horatian imitatio and odes 2.5 C. W. Macleod
6. Ivdicivm transferendi: Virgil, Aeneid and 2.469-505 and its antecedents E. J. Kenney
7. Self-imitation within a generic framework: Ovid, Amores 2.9 and 3.11 and the renuntiatio amoris Francis Cairns
8. Self-imitation and the substance of history: Tacitus, Annals 1.61-5 and Histories 2.70, 5.14-15 Tony Woodman
9. Lente cvrrite, noctis eqvi: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde 3.1422-70, Donne, The Sun Rising and Ovid, Amores 1.13 K. W. Gransden
10. Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Metamorphoses 4.1-166 Niall Rudd
11. Epilogue
Notes
Abbreviations and bibliography
Select indexes.