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Title Classical constructions [electronic resource] : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean / edited by S.J. Heyworth ; with P.G. Fowler and S.J. Harrison.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description xv, 368 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-358) and indexes.
Contents Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michele Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. Roberts -- Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure / Andrew Laird -- From man to book : the close of Tacitus' Agricola / Stephen Harrison.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Fowler, Don, 1953-1999.
Classical literature -- History and criticism.
Classical philology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Heyworth, S. J.
Fowler, P. G.
Harrison, S. J.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199218035 (alk. paper)
019921803X (alk. paper)

 
    
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