Didactic Literature in the Roman World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gellar-Goad, T. H. M.; Polt, Christopher B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period. Suitable for students and scholars of Latin literature, particularly the late Republic and early Empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000922738
• Artikelnr.: 68402341

Autorenporträt

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is Associate Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University. He specializes in Latin poetry, especially the funny stuff: Roman comedy, Roman erotic elegy, Roman satire, and-if you believe him-the allegedly philosophical poet Lucretius. He is author of Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire (Michigan 2020), Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury 2021), and Masks (Tangent 2023). Christopher B. Polt is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston College. His research centers on Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, and he is the author of numerous articles on Roman comedy, ancient epic, and fable. He is the author of Catullus and Roman Comedy: Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic (Cambridge 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
T. H. M. Gellar
Goad and Christopher B. Polt; Part One
Teaching Philosophies; 1. Lucretius' DRN and Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus: Comparing and Contrasting Didactic Projects
Michael Paschalis; 2. Epicurean Codas in Vergil's Georgics
Alison Keith; 3. Fortunatus et ille : Vergil's Ironic Epicureanism
Peter Heslin; Part Two
Erotodidaxis; 4. Idle Hands: The Poetics of Masturbation in the Winter Scenes of Hesiod (Op . 493
563) and Vergil (G. 1.291
310)
Leah Kronenberg; 5. Animal Love from Vergil: Contesting Marital Propriety in the Age of Augustus
Steven J. Green; 6. The Language of Teaching and Learning in Propertius
Melanie Racette
Campbell; Part Three
Metadidaxis; 7. Buried in Books: Varro's Papia Papae in the Shade of Scholarship
Joseph McAlhany; 8. Si Est Homo Bulla: Writing between the Lines in Varro's de Rebus Rusticis
Sarah Stroup; 9. The Shadows of Archimedes: Intertextual Anxieties in Hyginus Gromaticus' Constitutio Limitum
Del A. Maticic; 10. Satire, Didactic, and New Contexts for Problems in Horace's Ars Poetica
James J. O'Hara.