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Informationen zum Autor John F. Miller , Ph.D. (North Carolina), is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and author of Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991), Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (forthcoming 2009), and many articles on Roman poetry and the reception of Ovid. He was editor-in-chief of Classical Journal from 1991 to 1998 and has edited two collaborative volumes on Greek and Latin literature. A.J. Woodman , Ph.D. (Cambridge), is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and author of Rhetoric in Classical Historiography (1988), Latin Historians (1997, with C.S. Kraus) and Tacitus Reviewed (1998) and commentaries on Velleius Paterculus (1977, 1983) and (with R.H. Martin) Tacitus, Annals 3 (1996) and 4 (1989). He has produced award-winning translations of Sallust and Tacitus' Annals and has co-edited numerous volumes on Latin poetry and historical writing. Klappentext This book, a sequel to "Clio and the Poets" (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, including Velleius Paterculus, Lucan, Seneca, Statius, Pliny, Valerius Flaccus, Juvenal, Silius Italicus, and Tacitus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Contributors Introduction John F. Miller & A. J. Woodman 1 Crowds and Leaders in Imperial Historiography and in Epic Philip Hardie 2 Causation in Post-Augustan Epic Bruce Gibson 3 Too close? Historian and Poet in the Apocolocyntosis Cynthia Damon 4 Cannibalising History: Livian Moments in Statius' Thebaid Helen Lovatt 5 Replacing History: Inaugurating the New Year in Statius! Siluae 1.4 Jean-Michel Hulls 6 The Eruption of Vesuvius in the Epistles of Statius and Pliny Carole Newlands 7 From Sallust to Silius Italicus: Metus Hostilis and the Fall of Rome in the Punica John Jacobs 8 Rhoxolani Blues (Tacitus! Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian Geography Revisited Rhiannon Ash 9 Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus' Repetition of Virgil's Wars (Histories 3.26-34) Timothy A. Joseph 10 Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the Works of Juvenal and Tacitus Kathryn Williams 11 The Unfortunate Marriage of Gaius Silius: Tacitus and Juvenal on the Fall of Messalina Christopher Nappa 12 The Figure of Seneca in Tacitus and the Octavia Matthew Taylor ...
