ENGLISH

Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry

By G. O. Hutchinson

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0199279411, 9780199279418, 9780191557491
LCC
PA3092 .H88 2008
Open Library ID
OL16475004M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5291861 bytes)
Pages
352\347
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Increasing importance is being attached to how Greek and Latin books of poems were arranged, but such research has often been carried out with little attention to the physical fragments of actual ancient poetry-books. In this extensive study Gregory Hutchinson investigates the design of Greek and Latin books of poems in the light of papyri, including recent discoveries. A series of discussions of major poems and collections from two central periods of Greek and Latin literature is framed by a substantial and illustrated survey of poetry-books and reading, and by a more theoretical discussion of structures involving books. The main poets discussed are Callimachus, Apollonius, Posidippus, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid; a chapter on Latin didactic includes Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, and Manilius.

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