Mega nepios
Subtitle: il destinatario nell'epos didascalico
By: a cura di Alessandro Schiesaro, Phillip Mitsis, Jenny Strauss Clay
Series: Materiali e discusioni per l'analisi dei testi classici -- 31
Publisher: Giardini
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Pisa
Language: eng; ita; grc; lat
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Classical Didactic poetry; History and criticism; Reader-response criticism
Notes: Includes footnotes and bibliographical references

Includes passages in Greek and Latin
Table of contents: title: Foreword: To the Reader / D. Konstan; title: The Education of Perses: From 'Mega Nepios' to 'Dion Genos' and Back '/ J. Strauss Clay; title: L'esortazione di Parmenide al sapere / M. Tulli; title: The Addressees of Empedocles / D. Obbink; title: Aratus and his audiences / P. Bing; title: Committing Philosophy on the Reader ; Didactic Coercion and Reader Autonomy in 'De Rerum Natura' / Ph. Mitsis; title: Il destinatario discreto. Funzioni didascaliche  e progetto culturale nelle Georgiche / A. Schiesaro; title: Insegnare ad Augusto: Orazio, Epistole 2,1 e Ovidio, Tristia II / A. Barchiesi; title: The Addressees of the 'Ars poetica': Herculaneum, the Pisones and Epicurean Protreptic / D. Armstrong; title: Apostrophe, Aside and the Didactic Addressee: Poetic Strategies in 'Ars Amatoria III' / J. F. Miller; title: Hitch Your Wagon to a Star: Manilius and his Two Addressees / M. Neuburg