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Title Clio and the poets [electronic resource] : Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography / edited by D.S. Levene and D.P. Nelis.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

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Description xv, 396 p. : ill.
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 224
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 224.
Note Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-379) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Clio exclusa 1. -- C. J. Classen -- 2. Propertius the Historian (3.3.1-12)?25 -- Francis Cairns -- 3. Actium and Teutoburg: Augustan Victory and Defeat -- in Vergil and Tacitus45 -- V. E. Pagdn -- 4. Stepping Out of the Ring: Repetition and Sacrifice in -- the Boxing Match in Aeneid 561 -- Andrew Feldherr -- 5. Archaism and Historicism in Horace's Odes81 -- Ellen O'Gorman -- 6. Ab inferis: Historiography in Horace's Odes103 -- Cynthia Damon -- 7. Vergil's Italy: Ethnography and Politics in First-century -- Rome123 -- Cliford Ando -- 8. Roman Archaeology in Vergil's Arcadia (Vergil Eclogue 4; -- Aeneid 8; Livy 1.7)143 -- Marko Marincict -- 9. Ovid's Metamorphoses and Universal History163 -- Stephen M. Wheeler -- 10. The Historian in Ovid. The Roman History of -- Metamorphoses 14-15191 -- Philip Hardie -- 11. The Alban Kings in the Metamorphoses: an Ovidian -- Catalogue and its Historiographical Models211 -- Stratis Kyriakidis -- 12. The Fall of Troy: Between Tradition and Genre231 -- Andreola Rossi -- 13. Epic Encounters? Ancient Historical Battle Narratives -- and the Epic Tradition253 -- Rhiannon Ash -- 14. The Structure of Livy's First Pentad and the Augustan -- Poetry Book275 -- Ann Vasaly -- 15. A Varronian Vatic Numa?: Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's -- Life of N uma291 -- Molly Pasco-Pranger -- 16. The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of -- Augustan Rome313 -- Hans-Friedrich Mueller -- 17. History, Poetry, and Annales331 -- T' P. Wiseman -- Bibliography363 -- Index of passages discussed381 -- General Index388 -- List of Contributors395.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence -- Congresses.
Historical poetry, Latin -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
History, Ancient -- Historiography -- Congresses.
Literature and history -- Rome -- Congresses.
Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Levene, D. S.
Nelis, Damien.
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Cover Title Clio & the poets
ISBN 9004117822 (hd.bd.)

 
    
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