Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry - Genre, Tradition and Individuality

How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.>

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• Authors: Monica R Gale, Llewelyn Morgan
• Assisted by: Monica Gale (Editor), Monica R. Gale (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2004
• EAN: 9780954384562
• ISBN: 978-0-9543845-6-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: The Roman World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity