Teaching Through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry
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"In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning"-- Contents Preface A Note on Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Chapter 1. Introduction (Strauss Clay and Vergados) Chapter 2. Ties That Bind: Verbal Fetters and Ring Composition in Hesiod’s Theogony (Strauss Clay) Chapter 3. Constructing Other Eras in Didactic Poetry: Two Case-Studies (Stamatopoulou) Chapter 4. Designing a Cosmic Architecture: Craftsmanship in Empedocles’ Poetry (Andolfi) Chapter 5. An Image Sublime: The Milky Way in Aratus and Manilius (Glauthier) Chapter 6. Atomistic Imagery: Repetition and Reflection of the World in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Buglass) Chapter 7. Are Lucretius’ Images Clear? (Farrell) Chapter 8. Grain, Atoms, and Didactics: “Broken” Images in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Noller) Chapter 9. A Quiet Soul: The Suppressed Image of Harmony-Theory in De Rerum Natura (Davies-Mason) Chapter 10. Plagues and the Limits of Didactic Authority: Lucretius and Others (Gale) Chapter 11. Gigantomachy and Spontaneous Growth in the Georgics (Rider) Chapter 12. Tempora Mutantur: Metamorphic Imagery in Ovid’s Fasti (Walter) Chapter 13. Teaching through Exempla in the Ars Amatoria: The Case of Pasiphae (Miller) Chapter 14. Thinking in Images: The Construction of Imaginary Landscapes in Dionysius Periegetes, Avienius, and Priscianus (Bärtschi) Chapter 15. The Cultural Warfare of Hunting: Military Imagery in Grattius’ Cynegetica and Augustan Didactic (Leidl) Chapter 16. Pseudo-Oppian’s Didactic Paths in the Cynegetica (Vergados) Index Rerum Index Locorum
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