Nora (Hrsg.) Goldschmidt

Tombs of the Ancient Poets

Between Literary Reception and Material Culture

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Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poetQuintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed to… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Graziosi, Barbara (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-256104-6
EAN: 9780192561046
Produktnummer: 29392052
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'263 KB
Abbildungen: 15 black-and-white illustrations

Über den Autor

Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently completing a monograph on fictional biography and the reception of Latin poetry, Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (under contract with Cambridge University Press).Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics and Head of Department at Durham University. Her most recent monographs are The Gods of Olympus: A History (Profile Books, 2014) and Homer (Oxford University Press, 2016). She recently completed a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on visual and narrative portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets, entitled Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry. This volume stems from thatproject.