Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund

321 Pages·2021·2.058 MB·English

by  C. W. Marshall

Latin Poetry and Its Reception
This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin
verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it
has been translated and re-imagined. All chapters reflect the wide research
interests of Professor Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated.
Latin Poetry and Its Reception assembles a blend of senior scholars and
new voices in Latin literary studies. It makes important contributions to the
understanding of kingship in Hellenistic and Roman thought, with the first
four chapters dedicated to exploring this theme in Republican poetry, Virgil,
Seneca, and Statius. Chapters focusing on the modern reception include
case studies from the 16th to the 21st century, with discussions on Gavin
Douglas, Edward Gibbon, Herman Melville, Igor Stravinsky, and Elena
Ferrante, among others. No comparable volume provides a similar range.
Latin Poetry and Its Reception will appeal to all scholars of Latin poetry
and classical reception, from senior undergraduates to scholars in Classics
and other disciplines.
C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia
in Vancouver, Canada.

Latin Poetry and Its Reception
Essays for Susanna Braund
Edited by C. W. Marshall
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Contents
List of contributors x
Preface xii
PART 1
Roman kingship 1
1 Homeric kingship theory in archaic Latin poetry 3
JOSEPH FARRELL
2 The good king according to Virgil in the Aeneid 25
ALISON KEITH
3 The nature and nurture of kingship in Virgil’s Georgics
and Seneca’s De Clementia 43
JAYNE KNIGHT
4 Rege sub uno : on the politics of Statius’ Achilleid 56
ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI
PART 2
Genre crossing 75
5 The return of the tibicines in Livy and Ovid 77
MARCUS WILSON
6 Phaedrus in the forum: Plautus’ Pseudolus
and Plato’s P haedrus 91
CHRISTOPHER S. VAN DEN BERG
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7 When mortals meet gods in classical and contemporary
contexts 107
PAULA JAMES
8 Tacitean inflections of sincerity 124
VICTORIA EMMA PAGÁN
PART 3
Imperial intertexts 135
9 The burial of Misenus and Lucan’s D e Bello Ciuili 137
CILLIAN O’HOGAN
10 Mens Humilis vs. Superbia in Prudentius’ Psychomachia 149
ANDREW M. MCCLELLAN
11 Keeping the faith: allegory in late antique panegyric
and hagiography 163
PHILIP HARDIE
PART 4
Modern receptions 177
12 Gavin Douglas’s cranes and other classical birds 179
CAROLE NEWLANDS
13 After Strada: English responses to Strada’s N ightingale
(Prolusiones 2.6), with texts of four previously
unprinted versions 192
STUART GILLESPIE
14 Gibbon and Juvenal 216
JOSIAH OSGOOD
15 Into the maw: Melville and the classical tradition 230
BILL GLADHILL
16 Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex: the libretto 251
STEPHEN HARRISON
Contents ix
1 7 Muted voices: Marina Tsvetaeva’s and Anna Akhmatova’s
classical heroines 263
ZARA TORLONE
18 Translating friendship: My Brilliant Friend and the Aeneid 285
CORINNE PACHE
Index 296