Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors; Preface;
Roman Kingship; 1. Kingship Theory in Latin Poetry, 240-20 BCE, Joseph Farrell; 2. The Good King According to Virgil in the Aeneid, Alison Keith; 3.The Nature and Nurture of Kingship in Virgil’s Georgics and Seneca’s De Clementia, Jayne Knight; 4.
Rege sub uno: On the Politics of Statius’
Achilleid, Alessandro Barchiesi;
Genre Crossing; 5. The Return of the
Tibicines in Livy and Ovid, Marcus Wilson; 6. Phaedrus in the Forum: Plautus’
Pseudolus and Plato’s
Phaedrus, Christopher S. van den Berg; 7. When Mortals Meet Gods in Classical and Contemporary Contexts, Paula James; 8. Tacitean Inflections of Sincerity, Victoria Emma Pagán;
Imperial Intertexts; 9. The Burial of Misenus and Lucan's
De Bello Ciuili, Cillian O’Hogan; 10. Mens Humilis vs. Superbia in Prudentius’
Psychomachia, Andrew M. McClellan; 11. Keeping the faith: allegory in late antique panegyric and hagiography, Philip Hardie;
Modern Receptions; 12. Gavin Douglas’s Cranes and Other Classical Birds, Carole Newlands; 13. After Strada: English Responses to Strada’s
Nightingale (
Prolusiones 2.6), with texts of four previously unprinted versions, Stuart Gillespie; 14. Gibbon and Juvenal, Josiah Osgood; 15. Into the Maw: Melville and the Classical Tradition, Bill Gladhill; 16. Stravinsky’s
Oedipus Rex: The Libretto, Stephen Harrison; 17. Muted Voices: Marina Tsvetaeva’s and Anna Akhmatova’s Classical Heroines, Zara Torlone; 18. Translating Friendship:
My Brilliant Friend and the
Aeneid, Corinne Pache; Index
