Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture, and provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.

List of contents

• Notes On Editions and Translations


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1: Chariton and Latin Elegy I: The Language of Love


• 2: Chariton and Latin Elegy II: Ovidian Letters and Exile


• 3: Chariton and Vergil's Aeneid


• 4: Achilles Tatius and Latin Elegy


• 5: Achilles Tatius and Vergil's Aeneid


• 6: Achilles Tatius and the Destruction of Bodies: Ovid, Lucan, Seneca


• 7: Longus and Vergil


• Conclusion


• Works Cited

About the author

Daniel Jolowicz is a lecturer in Ancient Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at King's College London.

Summary

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture, and provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Jolowicz, Daniel (Lecturer in Ancient Greek and La Jolowicz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2021
• EAN: 9780192894823
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289482-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman literature