Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry - Genre, Tradition and Individuality

Ray Clare, Ceri Davies, Monica Gale, Bruce Gibson, Roger Green, Philip Hardie, Stephen Harrison, Andrew Laird, Llewelyn Morgan, Damien Nelis, Catherine Ware

The Classical Press of Wales

2004

264 páginas

8h 48m

ISBN-10: 0954384563

How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.