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Title:

Paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture / edited by Philip Hardie.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 388 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Latin literature--History and criticism.
Paradox in literature.
Marvelous, The, in literature.
Art, Roman.
Paradox in art.
Marvelous, The, in art.
Rome--Civilization.
Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.

Other Authors:

Hardie, Philip R.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-379) and indexes.

Contents:

The strange art of the sententious declaimer / Joy Connolly. Horace's Ars poetica and the marvellous / Mario Citroni -- Where the wild things are : locating marvellous in Augustan wall painting / Verity Platt -- Against nature? Some Augustan responses to man-made marvels / Rebecca Armstrong -- Virgil : a paradoxical poet? / Philip Hardie -- The question of the marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil / Alain Deremetz -- In search of the lost Hercules : strategies of the fantastic in the Aeneid / Mario Labate -- Thaumatographia, or 'what is the theme?' / J©ơrgen Paul Schwindt -- Phaethon and the monsters / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Prodigiosa mendacia uatum : responses to the marvellous in Ovid's narrative of Perseus (Metamorphoses 4-5) / Florence Klein -- Encountering the fantastic : expectations, forms of communication, reactions / Marco Fucecchi -- Constructing a narrative of mira deum : the story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8) / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-51 : noua monstra and the foedera naturae / Damien Nelis -- Latrator Anubis : alien divinities in Augustan Rome, and how to tame monsters through aetiology / Gianpiero Rosati -- Ordering wonderland : Ovid's Pythagoras and the Augustan vision / Mary Beagon -- Delusions of grandeur : Lucretian 'passages' in Livy / Andrew Feldherr -- The strange art of the sententious declaimer / Joy Connolly.

ISBN:

0199231249 (acid-free paper)
9780199231249 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)316430202

LCCN:

2008943925

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)