The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius
by Associate Professor of Classics Katharina Volk, Katharina Volk
Category: Literary Criticism

This work offers a theoretical look at Latin didactic poems. It discusses the characteristics that make a poem didactic from the points of view of both theory and literary history, and traces the genre's history, from Hesiod to Roman times.