Clio and the Poets - Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography

Informationen zum Autor D.S. Levene , Ph.D. (1989) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. He has published a variety of works on Latin historiography and rhetoric, including Religion in Livy (Brill, 1993). D.P. Nelis , Ph.D. (1988) in Classics, Queen's University of Belfast, is Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Vergil and Apollonius: the Aeneid and the Argonautica (Leeds 2001). Klappentext In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on - or reacted against - historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians transformed poetic themes for their own ends.

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• Authors: D. S. Levene, Damien P. Nelis
• Assisted by: D. S. Levene (Editor), David Levene (Editor), Nelis (Editor), D. P. Nelis (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2001
• EAN: 9789004117822
• ISBN: 978-90-0-411782-2
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity