Latin Explorations: Critical Studies in Roman Literature

✍ Scribed by Kenneth Quinn

Publisher: Routledge and Kegan
Year: 1963
Tongue: English
Leaves: 146
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 2
Preface......Page 3
Abbreviations......Page 4
1. Horace's Spring Odes......Page 5
Horace's Ode to Virgil (iv, 12)......Page 8
The Spring Meditations for Sestius and Torquatus (i, 4 and iv, 7)......Page 12
2. Virgil's Tragic Queen......Page 19
3. Emergence of a Form: the Latin Short Poem......Page 34
4. Dramatic Monologue in the Odes of Horace......Page 47
5. Tacitus' Narrative Technique......Page 60
The Importance of Propertius......Page 70
The Crisis in Roman Love Poetry......Page 75
The Elegiac Compromise......Page 79
Horace's Assault on Love Elegy......Page 82
The Search for Fresh Solutions......Page 86
7. Propertius and the Poetry of the Intellect......Page 88
The Power of Love (ii, 12)......Page 89
The Lover's Dream (ii, 26a)......Page 98
8. The Tempo of Virgilian Epic......Page 104
Elliptical Narrative......Page 106
Interweaving......Page 111
Allusion......Page 113
The Narrative Sentence: Tenses......Page 115
The Death of Priam (ii, 506-58)......Page 119
9. Persistence of a Theme: The Propempticon......Page 124
Propertius, the Passionate Lover (i, 8)......Page 126
Horace's Cautionary Tale (Odes iii, 27)......Page 131
Ovid, the Poseur (Amores ii, 11)......Page 138
List of Poems and Passages Discussed......Page 142
Index......Page 143

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