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Title:

Classical constructions : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean / edited by S.J. Heyworth ; with P.G. Fowler and S.J. Harrison.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Classical literature--History and criticism.
Classical philology.
Fowler, Don,--1953-1999.

Other Authors:

Heyworth, S. J. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007019686
Fowler, P. G.
Harrison, S. J. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91020338

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [320]-358) and indexes.

Contents:

Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. Roberts -- Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure / Andrew Laird -- From man to book : the close of Tacitus' Agricola / Stephen Harrison.

ISBN:

019921803X
9780199218035

OCLC:

(OCoLC)132293739

LCCN:

2007020921

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)