James J. O'Hara

Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan

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How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of the literary use of inconsistencies can shed light on major problems in Catullus' Peleus and Thetis, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Vergi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-64139-5
EAN: 9780521641395
Produktnummer: 2391787
Verlag: Cambridge
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 178 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.5 cm 295 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor

James J. O'Hara is George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid (1990) and True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (1996), as well as numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature.