Latin Poets and Roman Life

Zusatztext This book is alive with subtle and penetrating observations about Roman poetry... Informationen zum Autor Jasper Griffin was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford, UK, Fellow of Balliol College and elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include Homer (2001), Virgil (2nd edn, 2001); Latin poets and Roman life (1994) also available from Bloomsbury, and editor of Homer: Iliad, Book IX (1995). Klappentext Studies the inter-relation of literature and life in the Augustan poets Vorwort Argues that the work of Augustan poets Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid is not just stylised but convincing as a direct response to experience and theories Zusammenfassung This book studies the interrelation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterised by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylising events and emotions; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience and theories which deny that directness are criticised in this book as mistaken.The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety – eating, drinking, bathing, love – is a central subject but so is death. The book also discusses the uses of mythology, the influence of poetry on experience, and the interpretation of passages in the poems of Virgil. All Latin quoted is translated into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Augustan Poetry and the Life of Luxury2. Propertius and Antony3. Genre and Real Life in Latin Poetry4. Of Wines and Spirits5. The Pleasures of Water and Nakedness6. Meretrices, Matrimony and Myth7. Love and Death8. The Fourth Georgic, Virgil and Rome9. The Creation of Characters in the Aeneid10. The Influence of DramaBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: J. Griffin, Jasper Griffin, Griffin Jasper
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781853994302
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-430-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 214 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks; Bristol Classical Paperbacks; BCPaperbacks
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets