Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets

Klappentext A comprehensive treatment of the reflections by Augustan poets on Apollo as an imperial icon. Zusammenfassung Augustus claimed Apollo as a patron! and poets of the age responded to the idea in different ways. This book is a comprehensive treatment of the reflections by Augustan poets on Apollo as an imperial icon! both in relation to one another and against the background of contemporary evidence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Octavian and Apollo; 2. Apollo at Actium; 3. Apollo and the legend of Aeneas; 4. Apollo Palatinus; 5. Apollo and the New Age; 6. Apolline poetics and Augustus; 7. Ovid's Metamorphoses and Augustan Apollo.

Product details

• Authors: John F. Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107403581
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40358-1
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets