Inconsistency in Roman epic : studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /
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作 者：James J. O'Hara.
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ISBN：9780521641395
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Explores the possibility of providing literary interpretations of inconsistencies in five Roman epics.
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How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus' Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Not all inconsistencies can or should be interpreted thematically, but numerous details in these poems, and some ancient and modern theorists, suggest that we can be better readers if we consider how inconsistencies may be functioning in Greek and Roman texts.
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Cover 1
Half-title 3
Series-title 6
Title 9
Copyright 10
Dedication 11
Contents 13
Acknowledgments 14
Introduction 17
CHAPTER 1 Greek versions 24
From Homer to tragedy 24
From Plato to the modern era 34
Variety and variants in Alexandrian poetry 40
CHAPTER 2 Catullus 64: Variants and the virtues of heroes 49
The first ship, and the earlier ship 50
The aesthetic response, and the narrator 57
The manly virtues of heroic epic 60
Death and the optimistic wedding song 63
CHAPTER 3 Death, inconsistency, and the Epicurean poet 71
Asking for help from a god who does not care 73
A third way: from Venus to Epicurus 78
The not-quite-yet-thoroughly-Lucretius in Lucretius 80
Rules for poets and proems in DRN 4\u20135? 85
Early man, and the usual suspects 90
CHAPTER 4 Voices, variants, and inconsistency in the Aeneid 93
Optimistic and other prophecies 94
The best poem of the best poet 99
A garden of forking paths? 101
Let Vergil be your guide 107
They might be giants 112
CHAPTER 5 Inconsistency and authority in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses 120
God and man in the proem 121
Creation, philosophy, and the Olympians 124
Variants combined: Phaethon, Ino, and Lycaon 130
Genre and inconsistency: Medea, Meleager, Polyphemus 134
As time goes by 137
Origins original and otherwise 139
The problem of the \u201cpseudo-scientific\u201d 142
The poet and the anger of Jupiter 144
CHAPTER 6 Postscript: Lucan\u2019s Bellum Civile and the inconsistent Roman epic 147
Poet and princeps again 148
All the king\u2019s horses 152
Inconsistency and Roman epic 156
Bibliography 159
Index of passages discussed 175
General index 179
Half-title 3
Series-title 6
Title 9
Copyright 10
Dedication 11
Contents 13
Acknowledgments 14
Introduction 17
CHAPTER 1 Greek versions 24
From Homer to tragedy 24
From Plato to the modern era 34
Variety and variants in Alexandrian poetry 40
CHAPTER 2 Catullus 64: Variants and the virtues of heroes 49
The first ship, and the earlier ship 50
The aesthetic response, and the narrator 57
The manly virtues of heroic epic 60
Death and the optimistic wedding song 63
CHAPTER 3 Death, inconsistency, and the Epicurean poet 71
Asking for help from a god who does not care 73
A third way: from Venus to Epicurus 78
The not-quite-yet-thoroughly-Lucretius in Lucretius 80
Rules for poets and proems in DRN 4\u20135? 85
Early man, and the usual suspects 90
CHAPTER 4 Voices, variants, and inconsistency in the Aeneid 93
Optimistic and other prophecies 94
The best poem of the best poet 99
A garden of forking paths? 101
Let Vergil be your guide 107
They might be giants 112
CHAPTER 5 Inconsistency and authority in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses 120
God and man in the proem 121
Creation, philosophy, and the Olympians 124
Variants combined: Phaethon, Ino, and Lycaon 130
Genre and inconsistency: Medea, Meleager, Polyphemus 134
As time goes by 137
Origins original and otherwise 139
The problem of the \u201cpseudo-scientific\u201d 142
The poet and the anger of Jupiter 144
CHAPTER 6 Postscript: Lucan\u2019s Bellum Civile and the inconsistent Roman epic 147
Poet and princeps again 148
All the king\u2019s horses 152
Inconsistency and Roman epic 156
Bibliography 159
Index of passages discussed 175
General index 179
Inconsistency in Roman epic : studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /
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