Virgil's debt to Homer is well known but, as this detailed and specialized analysis demonstrates, Apollonius RhodiusÆ Argonautica, itself influenced by Homer, was a more immediate source. Assuming
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic explores the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of res publica restituta and the expression o
In this book seventeen leading scholars examine the interaction between historiography and poetry in the Augustan age: how poets drew on — or reacted against — historians’ presentation of the world, a
From a November 2012 conference near Geneva, 14 papers, four of them in English and the others in French or German, explore the intertextuality of Latin poets Lucan (39-65 AD) and Claudian (370–404
