Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil
Rivalry, Allegory, and Polemic
(Sprache: Englisch)
This strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil paints a remarkable picture of poetic rivals. Examination of their use of Greek mythology uncovers sustained polemics concealed and couched in meta-literary allusions, forcing a...
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This strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil paints a remarkable picture of poetic rivals. Examination of their use of Greek mythology uncovers sustained polemics concealed and couched in meta-literary allusions, forcing a reshaping of our understanding of poetic interaction within the circle of Maecenas.
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This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to situate himself with respect to his predecessors, both Greek and Roman. More specifically, myth is also the medium of a sustained polemic with Virgil's Eclogues, published only a few years earlier. Virgil's response can be traced in the Georgics, and subsequently, in his second and third books, Propertius continued to use mythology and its relationship to contemporary events as a vehicle for literary polemic. This volume argues that their competition can be seen as exemplifying a revised model for how the poets within Maecenas' circle interacted and engaged with each other's work - a model based on rivalry rather than ideological adhesion or subversion - while also painting a revealing picture of how Virgil was viewed by a contemporary in the days before his death had canonized his work as an instant classic. In particular, its novel interpretation offers us a new understanding of Propertius, one of the foundational figures in Western love poetry, and how his frequent references to other poets, especially Gallus and Ennius, take on new meanings when interpreted as responses to Virgil's changing career.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil “
- 1: The Lover's Mockumentary
- Searching for Gallus
- Patronage and Politics
- The Umbrian Callimachus
- The Text of Propertius
- Aphrodite's Underwear
- Horace, For Example
- Deviant Exemplarity
- 2: Programmatics
- Of Apples and Arcadia (1.1)
- Myth and Ornament (1.2)
- The Objectifying Gaze (1.3)
- 3: Myth and Genre
- Against Iambic (1.4)
- Antigone and Elegy (1.7)
- Amphion vs Orpheus (1.9)
- Prometheus and the Mayfly (1.12)
- Love and Money (1.14)
- Hysterical Heroines (1.15)
- Nasty Nereids (1.17)
- Love and Death (1.19)
- The Real Gallus (1.13)
- 4: Against Pastoral
- Tender Feet (1.8)
- Et in Arcadia Echo (1.18)
- The Second Best Bed (2.4)
- Hylas Descending (1.20)
- Virgil's Orpheus
- 5: The Return of Orpheus
- Virgil's Metamorphosis (2.1)
- Eurydice Recovered (2.7)
- Missed Connections, Lost Property (2.10)
- Orpheus and Adonis (2.13)
- The Resurrection of Orpheus (2.27)
- The Muse's Child (2.30)
- Various Poets (2.34)
- The Resurrection of Adonis
- 6: Ennius Redivivus
- Troy or Romea (3.1)
- The Polyphemus Paradox (3.2)
- Nightmare on Helicon (3.3)
- A Hypocritical Epicurean (3.5)
- Poet and Patron (3.9)
- 7: Conclusion
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Heslin
Peter Heslin is Reader in Classics at Durham University. He is the author of The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015), The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid (CUP, 2005), and several articles examining Propertius' relationship to both Virgil and Horace. He has also written on the topography of Augustan Rome, the Latin epic tradition, and Digital Humanities, and is the developer of Diogenes, open-source software for reading Latin and Greek texts.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Heslin
- 2018, 318 Seiten, Maße: 15,8 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199541574
- ISBN-13: 9780199541577
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
[a] learned and thought-provoking book ... It is a testament to the persuasiveness of Heslin's arguments that in most instances where a reader disagrees with his interpretation, one is much more likely to seek an alternate explanation than to doubt the possibility of the myth's relevance to its larger thematic context. Jeri DeBrohun, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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