From Poetry to History
Selected Papers
ISBN13: 9780199608652ISBN10: 0199608652
Hardback,
464 pages
Apr 2012,
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Price:
$170.00 (06)Description
From Poetry to History offers twenty-five selected papers by the leading Latin scholar A. J Woodman, and focuses on the close relationship between two popular genres from the late first century BC to the early second century AD, namely Latin poetry and historical writing or ancient historiography.Most of the papers represent close readings of individual poems or passages of text, the majority of which concern the works of Tacitus, Catullus, and Horace, but which also feature Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Augustus' Res Gestae, Velleius, and the younger Pliny.
The volume includes four papers published for the very first time; as well as an epilogue which discusses the various themes treated.
Features
- Includes four papers yet to be published.
- Offers close and detailed reading of major classical texts and authors.
- A significant contribution to the literary appreciation of Tacitus and his works.
About the Author(s)
A. J. Woodman started his career at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1968-80), where he was previously an undergraduate. He was then successively Professor of Latin at Leeds University (1980-84), and Durham University (1984-2004), before moving to his present position as Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has written and edited numerous books on both Latin literature and ancient historical texts.
