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This volume brings together a posthumous collection of over 40 scholarly papers by leading Latinist and one of the world's leading interpreters of Virgil, Nicholas Horsfall.
List of contents
- Abbreviations
- 1: Numanus Remulus: ethnography and propaganda in Aen. 9.598ff.
- 2: Dido in the light of history
- 3: Turnus ad portas
- 4: Virgil's Roman chronography: a reconsideration
- 5: The collegium poetarum
- 6: Virgil, history and the Roman tradition
- 7: Some problems in the Aeneas-legend
- 8: Doctus sermones utriusque linguae?
- 9: Virgil, Varro s Imagines and the Forum of Augustus
- 10: From history to legend: Manlius and the geese
- 11: Some problems of titulature in Roman literary history
- 12: Virgil and the conquest of chaos
- 13: The structure and purpose of Virgil s parade of heroes
- 14: The Caudine forks: topography and illusion
- 15: Illusion and reality in Latin topographical writing
- 16: The Aeneas-legend and the Aeneid
- 17: Non uiribus aequis: some problems in Virgil s battle-scenes
- 18: Camilla, or the limits of invention
- 19: The Uses of Literacy and the Cena Trimalchionis
- 20: Chloreus' trousers
- 21: Barbara tegmina crurum
- 22: Aeneas the colonist
- 23: Virgil and the illusory footnote
- 24: Externi duces
- 25: The Aeneid and the social structures of primitive Italy
- 26: Virgil and the poetry of explanations
- 27: Empty shelves on the Palatine
- 28: Cicero and poetry: the place of prejudice in literary history
- 29: The prehistory of Latin poetry: some problems of method
- 30: Rome without spectacles
- 31: The cultural horizons of the Plebs Romana ( MAAR (1996) 101 118)
- 32: The geography of the Georgics
- 33: The unity of Roman Italy: some anomalies
- 34: The unity of Roman Italy: anomalies in context
- 35: The legionary as his own historian
- 36: The Moretum decomposed
- 37: Fraud as scholarship: the Helen Episode and the Appendix Vergiliana
- 38: Excudent alii
- 39: Virgil and the Jews
- 40: Poets and poetry in Virgil's Underworld
- 41: Exempla in Virgil's Underworld
- 42: The poetics of toponymy
- Nicholas Horsfall, a bibliography
- Index
About the author
Nicholas Horsfall (1946-2019) was formerly Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University.
Summary
This volume brings together a posthumous collection of over 40 scholarly papers by leading Latinist and one of the world's leading interpreters of Virgil, Nicholas Horsfall.
Additional text
Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels is a duly solid memorial to the late Nicholas Horsfall ... 145 learned articles constitute the core of his prodigious contribution to Vergiliana. Of those, forty-two are reprinted here, representing a good range across time and topics.
