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Latin Poets and Italian Gods.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Robson Classical LecturesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442685802
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Latin Poets and Italian GodsDDC classification:
  • 871/.01093820211
LOC classification:
  • PA6029.R4.F36 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I: Honouring the Italian Gods -- 1 Rustica Numina: The Country Gods of Italy and Their Reception in Roman Poetry -- 2 Virgil's Gods of the Land -- 3 Ovid's Fasti and the Local Gods of the City -- PART II: Counter-Examples, and the Triumph of Artistry over Fading Devotion -- 4 Ovidian Variations: From Friendly Flora to Lewd Salmacis and Angry Acheloüs -- 5 Gods in a Man-made Landscape: Priapus -- 6 Gods in Statian Settings -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Abbreviations -- Principal Editions Cited -- GENERAL INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- INDEX OF PRINCIPAL PASSAGES DISCUSSED -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V.
Summary: Latin Poets and Italian Godsreconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I: Honouring the Italian Gods -- 1 Rustica Numina: The Country Gods of Italy and Their Reception in Roman Poetry -- 2 Virgil's Gods of the Land -- 3 Ovid's Fasti and the Local Gods of the City -- PART II: Counter-Examples, and the Triumph of Artistry over Fading Devotion -- 4 Ovidian Variations: From Friendly Flora to Lewd Salmacis and Angry Acheloüs -- 5 Gods in a Man-made Landscape: Priapus -- 6 Gods in Statian Settings -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Abbreviations -- Principal Editions Cited -- GENERAL INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- INDEX OF PRINCIPAL PASSAGES DISCUSSED -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V.

Latin Poets and Italian Godsreconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.

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