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Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry
Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.
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Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry
Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.
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Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry

Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry

by G. O. Hutchinson
Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry
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Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry

by G. O. Hutchinson

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Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191557491
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 08/14/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

G. O. Hutchinson is Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Doing Things with Books2. The Aetia: Callimachus' Poem of Knowledge3. Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form4. The New Posidippus and Latin Poetry5. The Catullan Corpus, Greek Epigram, and the Poetry of Objects6. The Publication and Individuality of Horace's Odes Books 1-37. Horace and Archaic Greek Poetry8. Ovid, Amores 3: The Book9. The Metamorphosis of Metamorphosis: P. Oxy. 4711 and Ovid10. Structuring Instruction: Didactic Poetry and Didactic Prose11. Books and Scales
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