Selected papers given at a conference at the University of Durham in 1999. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Paralleltitel: Clio & the poets
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-379) and index
Clio exclusa / C.J. Classen -- Propertius the historian / Francis Cairns -- Actium and Teutoburg : Augustan victory and defeat in Vergil and Tacitus / v. E. Pagán -- Stepping out of the ring : repetition and sacrifice in the boxing match in Aeneid 5 / Andrew Feldherr -- Archaisom and historicism in Horace's Odes / Ellen O'Gorman -- Ab inferis : historiography in Horace's Odes / Cynthia Damon -- Vergil's Italy : ethnography and politics in first-century Rome / Clifford Ando -- Roman archaeology in Vergil's Arcadia (Vergil Eclogue 4; Aeneid 8; Livy 1.7) / Marko Marinčič -- Ovid's Metamorphoses and universal history / Stephen M. Wheeler -- The historian in Ovid. The Roman history of Metamorphoses 14-15 / Philip Hardie -- The Alban Kings in the Metamorphoses : an Ovidian catalogue and its historiographical models / Stratis Kyriakidis -- The fall of Troy : between tradition and genre / Andreola Rossi -- Epic encounters? Ancient historical battle narratives and the epic tradition / Rhiannon Ash -- The structure of Livy's first Pentad and the Augustan poetry book / Ann Vasaly -- A Varronian Vatic Numa? : Ovid's Fasti and Plutarch's Life of Numa / Molly Pasco-Pranger -- The extinction of the Potitii and the sacred history of Augustan Rome / Hans-Friedrich Mueller -- History, poetry and Annales / t. P. Wiseman
The Augustan age was one in which writers were constantly reworking the Roman past, and which was marked by a profound engagement of poets with historians. In this book 17 leading scholars from Europe and America examine the fascinating interaction between such apparently diverse genres
