Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-330) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Myrto Garani and David Konstan -- The beginnings: philosophy in Roman literature before 155 B.C. / Dorota Dutsch -- Lucretius, Empedocles, and Cleanthes / Gordon Campbell -- Philosophy in Vergil / Joseph Farrell -- Horace's epicurean voice in the satires / David Armstrong -- The figure of Numa on Ovid's Fasti / Myrto Garani -- Manilius and stoicism / Ilaria Ramelli -- 'Stoic tragedy'': A contradiction in terms? / Claudia Wiener -- Consolation, rebellion and philosophy in Lucan's Bellum Civile Book 8 / Francesca D'Alessandro Behr -- Persius' Fourth Satire; Socrates and the failure of pedagogy / Shadi Bartsch -- Stoic thought and Homeric reminiscence in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica / A. Zissos.
Summary:
An international group of scholars expert in Roman literature and the reception of the Greek philosophical tradition have come together to analyze the debt of Latin poetry to Greek philosophy across a range of authors, from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD.--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Pierides, studies in Greek and Latin literature ; v. 3
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