Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire : generic interactions /
Miller, John F.,1950-
Woodman, A. J.(Anthony John),1945-
Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
2010.
Papers presented at the "Proxima poetis: Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire" conference, held at the University of Virginia on April 11-12, 2008.
Sequel to: Clio and the poets (Brill, 2002).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index.
Introduction / John F. Miller & A.J. Woodman -- Crowds and leaders in imperial historiography and in epic / Philip Hardie -- Causation in post-Augustan epic / Bruce Gibson -- Too close? historian and poet in the Apocolocyntosis / Cynthia Damon -- Cannibalising history: Livian moments in Statius' Thebaid / Helen Lovatt -- Replacing history: inaugurating the new year in Statius, Siluae / Jean-Michel Hulls -- The eruption of Vesuvius in the epistles of Statius and Pliny / Carole Newlands -- From Sallust to Silius Italicus: metus hostilis and the fall of Rome in the Punica / John Jacobs -- Rhoxolani blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian -- Geography revisited / Rhiannon Ash -- Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus' repetition of Virgil's Wars (Histories 3.26-34) / Timothy A. Joseph -- Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the works of Juvenal and Tacitus / Kathryn Williams -- The unfortunate marriage of Gaius Silius: Tacitus and Juvenal -- On the fall of Messalina / Christopher Nappa -- The figure of Seneca in Tacitus and the Octavia / Matthew Taylor.
Historical poetry, Latin
Epic poetry, Latin
Literature and history
History in literature