Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry

Genre, Tradition and Individuality

Monica R Gale editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Classical Press of Wales

Published:1st Dec '04

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How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.

ISBN: 9780954384562

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262 pages