Constructing authors and readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana /

Constructing authors and readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana / [edited by] T. E. Franklinos and Laurel Fulkerson.

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By examining some early poetic understandings of what it might have meant to be Vergil, Ovid, and Tibullus, this volume explores what those authors meant to near-contemporaries, and what the construction of authorship they were a part of meant to the later western tradition.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Franklinos, T. E. (Tristan Emil), 1989- (Editor), Fulkerson, Laurel, 1972- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Pseudepigrapha latina.
Subjects:
Virgil > Criticism and interpretation.
Tibullus > Criticism and interpretation.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Tibullus.
Virgil.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Latin poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Constructing Authorsand Readers in theAppendices Vergiliana,Tibulliana, and Ouidiana
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Authoring, reading, and exploring an Appendix: Some introductory thoughts
  • Why this volume and why now?
  • What's in a name? appendices vs opuscula
  • The three Appendices: what we think we know
  • Same and different-variations among the Appendices
  • Summary of chapters
  • 1 Scylla's lament in the Ciris and the Latin literary tradition
  • Scylla's lament
  • Concluding thoughts
  • 2 The mythical antecedents of the Ciris*
  • 3 Author and audience in Catalepton
  • Reading Catalepton: parameters and perspectives
  • The design of the collection
  • Thematic emphases
  • Poems 1 and 7: Tucca, Varius, and the Editor of Catalepton
  • Poems 2, 5, and 8: rhetoric and philosophy
  • Poems 3 and 9: great men
  • Poems 4 and 11: poetry and history
  • Poems 5 and 10: Sabinus ille?
  • Poems 6 and 12: Noctuinus and Atilius, gener socerque
  • 4 Construing the author as a Catullan reader in the pure iambic Catalepton (6, 10, 12)
  • 5 Catalepton 9 and Valgius Rufus.
  • 6 Echoing Virgil and Narcissus: structure and interpretation of the Culex*
  • Standard' tripartite structural model for the Culex
  • Unipartite structural model: Ovid's Narcissus episode as hypotext
  • Ring composition and reflection on the poet and Virgil
  • Philosophy and vision: Lucretius
  • Conclusion: the author of the Culex
  • 7 Volcanic wonder: a starry-eyed view of the Aetna*
  • 8 Teaching the death of elegy: the elegies of Lygdamus ([Tib.] 3.1-6)
  • Love elegy and cultus
  • Love and death
  • Teacher of love
  • Conclusion.
  • 9 Tibullan impersonation and Callimachean influence in the Messalla Panegyric ([Tib.] 3.7)
  • 10 The authorship of Tibullus 3.9: methods and criteria
  • 11 The authorship of Sulpicia*
  • 12 The Halieutica attributed to Ovid: issues of authenticity, reception, and supplementation*
  • The evidence from Pliny, Natural History
  • Halieutica 1-18: improving the text?
  • Supplementing the Halieutica: antiquity
  • Supplementing the Halieutica: Renaissance
  • Conclusion
  • 13 Plumbing the Ovidian Halieutica*
  • 14 The Consolatio ad Liuiam and literary history
  • Author and readers.
  • History and the poem's date
  • Intertexts and sequence
  • Conclusion
  • 15 The lovers and the rebel: reading the double Heroides as an exilic text*
  • 16 The Nux attributed to Ovid and its Renaissance readers: the case of Erasmus*
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index locorum
  • Index rerum.

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