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Zusatztext This book is alive with subtle and penetrating observations about Roman poetry... Informationen zum Autor Jasper Griffin was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford, UK, Fellow of Balliol College and elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Homer (2001), Virgil (2nd edn, 2001); Latin poets and Roman life (1994) also available from Bloomsbury, and editor of Homer: Iliad, Book IX (1995). Klappentext This book studies the interrelation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterised by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylising events and emotions; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience and theories which deny that directness are criticised in this book as mistaken. The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety - eating, drinking, bathing, love - is a central subject but so is death. The book also discusses the uses of mythology, the influence of poetry on experience, and the interpretation of passages in the poems of Virgil. All Latin quoted is translated into English. Vorwort Argues that the work of Augustan poets Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid is not just stylised but convincing as a direct response to experience and theories Zusammenfassung This book studies the interrelation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterised by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylising events and emotions; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience and theories which deny that directness are criticised in this book as mistaken.The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety – eating, drinking, bathing, love – is a central subject but so is death. The book also discusses the uses of mythology, the influence of poetry on experience, and the interpretation of passages in the poems of Virgil. All Latin quoted is translated into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Augustan Poetry and the Life of Luxury 2. Propertius and Antony 3. Genre and Real Life in Latin Poetry 4. Of Wines and Spirits 5. The Pleasures of Water and Nakedness 6. Meretrices, Matrimony and Myth 7. Love and Death 8. The Fourth Georgic, Virgil and Rome 9. The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid 10. The Influence of Drama Bibliography Index ...
