They keep it all hid : Augustan poetry, its antecedents and reception : studies in honor of Richard F. Thomas

This volume comprises a series of studies focusing on the Latin poetry of the first and second centuries BCE, its relationship to earlier models both Greek and Latin, and its reception by later writers. A point of particular focus is the influence of Greek poetry, including not only Hellenistic writers like Callimachus, Theocritus, and Lycophron, but also archaic poets like Pindar and Bacchylides. The volume also includes studies of style, as well as treatments of the influence of Latin poetry on writers like Marvell and Dylan. Contributers include J. N. Adams, Barbara Weiden Boyd, Brian Breed, Sergio Casali, Julia Hejduk, Peter Knox, Leah Kronenburg, Charles Martindale, Charles McNelis, James O’Hara, Thomas Palaima, Hayden Pelliccia, David Petrain, David Ross, and Alexander Sens. Table of Contents Editors’ Preface Prologue Mythical and Literary Genealogies: Aeneas and the Trojan Line in Homer, Ennius and Virgil Reading Virgil and His Trees: The Alder and the Poplar Tree in Catullus and Virgil A Known Unknown in Pompeian Graffiti? Dido’s furtiuuus amor (Virgil, Aeneid 4.171–2) Genre, Gender, and the Etymology Behind the Phrase Lugentes campi at Aeneid 6.441 Saepe stilum uertas: Moral and Metrical Missteps in Horace’s Satires The Reception of Horace Odes 2.4 in Horace Odes 2.5 Beatus ille qui procul ... otiis?: Ovid’s Rustication Cure (Remedia amoris 169–98) Envy and Closure in the Greek Anthology Some Second Poems: Theocritus, Virgil, Tibullus The Horatianism of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode” Masters of War: Virgil, Horace, Owen, Pound, Trumbo, Dylan and the Art of Reference Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index of Passages Discussed Index Rerum This Volume Contains A Series Of Studies Of Latin Poetry Of The Augustan Period Especially As It Relates To Its Literary Antecedents Both Greek And Latin, And Its Reception By Subsequent Ancient And Modern Poets, Including Marvell And Dylan.