J Mira Seo

Exemplary Traits

Reading Characterization in Roman Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Exemplary Traits examines how Roman poets used models dynamically to create character, and how their referential approach to character reveals them mobilizing the literary tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199734283
• ISBN-10: 0199734283
• Artikelnr.: 36694286

Autorenporträt

J. Mira Seo is Associate Professor in the Humanities at Yale-NUS college.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations and Texts
Introduction
1. We'll Always Have Paris: Aeneas and the Roman Legacy
2. Lucan's Cato and the Poetics of Exemplarity
3. Seneca's Oedipus: Characterization and Decorum
4. Parthenopaeus and Mors immatura in Statius' Thebaid
5. Amphiaraus, Predestined Prophet, Didactic Vates
Conclusions
Appendix: Seneca's Hippolytus and Fatal Attraction
Bibliography
Passages Cited
Index