Inconsistency in Roman Epic

副标题: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

ISBN: 9780521646420

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 2007-05-14

页数: 165

定价: USD 32.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.