Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis' Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and 'reality'; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.

About the author

Stavros Frangoulidis, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece and Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford, UK.

Report

"As a whole, it is a winning collection, and many of the authors have written real gems in honor of Papanghelis' career."
Christopher V. Trinacty in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.04.39

Product details

• Assisted by: Stavro Frangoulidis (Editor), Stavros Frangoulidis (Editor), Harrison (Editor), Stephen Harrison (Editor), Stephen J. Harrison (Editor), J Harrison (Editor), J Harrison (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783110587760
• ISBN: 978-3-11-058776-0
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 24 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 632 g
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; ISSN; Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 61
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity