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Inconsistency in Roman epic : = studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Inconsistency in Roman epic :/ James J. O'Hara.
Reminder of title:	studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /
Author:	O'Hara, James J.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618567
ISBN:	9780511618567 (ebook)

Inconsistency in Roman epic : = studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /
O'Hara, James J.,1959-

Inconsistency in Roman epic :studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /James J. O'Hara. - 1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Roman literature and its contexts. - Roman literature and its contexts..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Lucan's Bellum Civile. Not all inconsistencies can or should be interpreted thematically, but numerous details in these poems, and some ancient and modern theorists, suggest that we can be better readers if we consider how inconsistencies may be functioning in Greek and Roman texts.

ISBN: 9780511618567 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

579232
Epic poetry, Latin
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PA6054 / .O47 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 873

Inconsistency in Roman epic : = studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan /
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