Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire
Subtitle: generic interactions
By: edited by John F. Miller and A.J. Woodman
Series: Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature -- v. 321
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789004177550
Subjects: Historiography; History in literature; Literature and history; Latin Historical poetry; History and criticism; Congresses; Latin Epic poetry; In literature
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John F. Miller & A.J. Woodman; title: Crowds and leaders in imperial historiography and in epic / Philip Hardie; title: Causation in post-Augustan epic / Bruce Gibson; title: Too close? historian and poet in the Apocolocyntosis / Cynthia Damon; title: Cannibalising history: Livian moments in Statius' Thebaid / Helen Lovatt; title: Replacing history: inaugurating the new year in Statius, Siluae / Jean-Michel Hulls; title: The eruption of Vesuvius in the epistles of Statius and Pliny / Carole Newlands; title: From Sallust to Silius Italicus: metus hostilis and the fall of Rome in the Punica / John Jacobs; title: Rhoxolani blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian; title: Geography revisited / Rhiannon Ash; title: Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus' repetition of Virgil's Wars (Histories 3.26-34) / Timothy A. Joseph; title: Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the works of Juvenal and Tacitus / Kathryn Williams; title: The unfortunate marriage of Gaius Silius: Tacitus and Juvenal; title: On the fall of Messalina / Christopher Nappa; title: The figure of Seneca in Tacitus and the Octavia / Matthew Taylor.