Afterlives of the Roman Poets - Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Medieval Ovids; 2. Staging the poets: Ben Jonson's Poetaster; 3. Lucan and revolution; 4. Lucretius and modern subjectivity; 5. The death of the author: Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil; Post-mortem.

About the author

Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Her publications include Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (2013) and (edited with Barbara Graziosi) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Nora Goldschmidt, Nora (University of Durham) Goldschmidt, Goldschmidt Nora
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107180253
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18025-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Biography: literary, Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography: writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets