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Zusatztext Offers original and high quality contributions. Informationen zum Autor Philip Hardie is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature, University of Cambridge. Klappentext Augustan Poetry and the Irrational, with contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars, examines the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explores elements of post-classical reception. Zusammenfassung Augustan Poetry and the Irrational, with contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars, examines the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explores elements of post-classical reception. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Contributors 1: Philip Hardie: Introduction: Augustan Poetry and the Irrational Part 1: Civil War: Expiation and the Return of the Repressed 2: Elena Giusti: My Enemy's Enemy is My Enemy: Virgil's Illogical Use of metus hostilis 3: Stefano Rebeggiani: Orestes, Aeneas, and Augustus: Madness and Tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid 4: Mario Labate: The Night of Reason: The Esquiline and Witches in Horace Part 2: Order and Disorder: Counting and Accounts 5: Christian Hass: Beyond 'Cosmos' and 'Logos': An Irrational Cosmology in Virgil, Georgics 1.231-58? 6: Jürgen Paul Schwindt: The Magic of Counting: On the Cantatoric Status of Poetry (Catullus 5 and 7' Horace Odes 1.11) 7: Emily Gowers: Under the Influence: Maecenas and Bacchus in Georgic 2 Part 3: Reason and Desire 8: Jane Burkowski: Apollo in Tibullus 2.3 and 2.5 9: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris: The Ars rhetorica: An Ovidian remedium for Female furor? 10: William Fitzgerald: Augustan Gothic: Alexander Pope Reads Ovid 11: Donncha O'Rourke: The Madness of Elegy: Rationalizing Propertius Part 4: Self-Contraditions: Philosophy and Rhetoric 12: Mario Citroni: Horace and the Value of Self-Deception 13: S. J. Heyworth: Irrational Panegyric in Augustan Poetry Part 5: Virgilian Figures of the Irrational 14: Séverine Clément-Tarantino: Caderent mones a crinibus hydri: The Problems of the Irrational in the Juno and Allecto Episode in Aeneid 7 15: Philip Hardie: Adamastor and the Epic Poet's Dark Continent Bibliography Index ...
