Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace

by S. J. Harrison

Overview

S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191615900
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/31/2011
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File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Generic Groundwork 1
2 Beyond Pastoral? Generic Pressures in Vergil's Eclogues 34
3 Ambition to Rise: Horace, Satires 1 75
4 On Not Being Archilochus: Horace's Epodes 104
5 Intra-Epic Debate: Vergil's Georgics 136
6 Lyric Flexibility: Literary Form in Horace's Odes 168
7 Epic Inclusivity: Vergil's Aeneid 207 Bibliography 241 Index locorum 255 General Index 259