Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20045653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip R Hardie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Pages | 685-699 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Essays on Ancient Literature and Its Reception (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110798852-038 |
| OpenAlex | W606314839 |
| ISBN | 9783110798852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
1. Introduction: Paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture 2. Horace's Ars poetica and the marvellous 3. Where the wild things are: locating the marvellous in Augustan wall-painting 4. Against nature? Some Augustan responses to man-made marvels 5. Virgil: a paradoxical poet? 6. The question of the marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil 7. In search of the lost Hercules: strategies of the marvellous in the Aeneid 8. Thaumatographia, or 'What is a theme?' 9. Phaethon and the monsters 10. Prodigiosa mendacia uatum. Responses to the marvellous in Ovid's narrative of Perseus (Metamorphoses 4-5) 11. Encountering the fantastic: expectations, forms of communication, reactions 12. Constructing a narrative of mira deum: the story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid Metamorphoses 8) 13. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-51: noua monstra and the foedera naturae 14. Alien divinities. How to tame monsters through aetiology 15. Ordering wonderland: Ovid's Pythagoras and the Augustan vision 16. Delusions of grandeur: Lucretian 'passages' in Livy 17. The strange art of the sententious declaimer
Art · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |