Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne, Supplements)

The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book seventeen leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or reacted against - the historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace's "Odes" to Ovid's "Metamorphoses," on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most important topic so central to such a particulary relevant period of literary history. 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. The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with the historians and historical techniques which were the main vehicle for the transmission of the image of the past to their day. In this book 17 leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres: how the Augustan poets drew on - or reacted against - the historians' presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians picked up and transformed poetic themes for their own ends. With essays on poems from Horace's Odes to Ovid's "Metamorphoses", on authors from Virgil to Valerius Maximus, it forms the most comprehensive examination yet of this central topic of this most central of literary periods. In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on — or reacted against — historians’ presentation of the world, and how, conversely, historians transformed poetic themes for their own ends. Edited By D.s. Levene And D.p. Nelis. Selected Papers Given At A Conference At The University Of Durham In 1999. 'list Of Contributors' : P. [395]-396. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [363]-379) And Indexes (p. [381]-394).