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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      23 November 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511618499
      9780521871181
      9780521691796
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618499
      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.298kg, 174 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.22kg, 176 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
      Series:
      Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
    Series:
    Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander, Callimachus of Cyrene, and his contemporaries stands at the heart of the book, the individual studies embrace the full scope of what remains of Hellenistic poetry, both high literary productions and the more marginal poetry, such as that in honour of the great goddess Isis. The singularity of the poetry of Catullus and Virgil, of Horace and the elegists, emerges as more rich and complex than has hitherto been appreciated. Individual studies concern the poets' declared attitudes to their own work, the figure of Dionysus/Bacchus and the poetry of world conquest, the creation of similes, and the conversion of Greek bucolic into Latin pastoral.

    Reviews

    Through his magisterial command of ancient literature and modern scholarship, everywhere in evidence in his latest book, Hunter has enhanced our appreciation of the lengths to whichpoets in the Late Republic and Augustan era went to emerge from the shadow and bask in a light now fully their own.'

    Source: BMCR

    'As hunter says in his concluding sentence, 'In the stare of the evidence, fragmentary glimpses of partial truths are probably the best for which we can hope.' Hunter has given us much more than 'fragmentary glimpses' in a volume that should be on the shelf of every scholar of ancient poetry.'

    Source: Latomus

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