Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics From Horace to Silius Italicus -- Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos … Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)? -- Nominal Intelligence: Conspiracy, Prosopography, and the Secret of Horace, Odes 2.10 -- Another Vergilian Signature in the Georgics? -- Mora in the Aeneid -- Dido and the Owl -- Freudian Bullseyes in Classical Perspective: The Psycholinguistics of Guilt in Virgil's Aeneid -- Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus -- Violent Retribution and Pietas: The Closure of the Aeneid Revisited -- Freedom of Speech in Virgil and Ovid -- Love's Letters: an Amor-Roma Telestich at Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.507-10 -- Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid -- Pythagoras and Numa in Ovid: Exile and Immortality at Rome -- Lucan's Caesar and Laelius -- A Theory of Violence in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile -- From Pastoral to Panegyric in Calpurnius Siculus -- Speaking Names in Senecan Drama -- Civil War, the Soul, and the Cosmos at Seneca, Thyestes 547-622: A Tropology -- Doubtful Certainties: The Politics of Reading in Seneca's Oedipus -- Doubting Domitian's Divinity: Statius Achilleid 1.1-2 -- As if: Reflections on an Exemplary Wife -- Silius Italicus and Greek Epic: Imperial Culture Wars -- List of Contributors -- Publications by Frederick Ahl -- Index of passages discussed -- General Index.

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