Collected Papers on Latin Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23536220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R G M Nisbet |
| Editors | S J Harrison |
| Year | 1995 |
| Pages | 449 |
| Publication date | 1995-05-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Collected papers on Latin literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198149484.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W589834600 |
| Open Library | OL1104733M |
| ISBN | 9780198149484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 84 |
This book contains twenty-six articles on a wide range of topics in Latin literature by the eminent scholar and former Professor of Latin at Oxford, Robin Nisbet. Original, stimulating, and at times provocative, this collection represents some of the best in Latin scholarship in recent years.
Latin Americans · Library science · Linguistics · Political science · Scholarship · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · History and criticism · Latin literature
The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II
Greek elegy
Virgilian Narrative
Correctors and Critics II
Post-classical Commentary
The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio
Other Christian Verse Invectives
Latin precursors
Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
Pagan Converts
Propertius
The “Pagan” Literary Revival
The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I
Priests and Initiates
The Latin elegiac couplet
‘The woman’
Virgil’s Intertextual Personae
Closure and the Book of Virgil
Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity
Correctors and Critics I
Ovid the love elegist
Sons and Lovers
Virgilian Epic
Pagan Writers
Greek Texts and Latin Translation
Pagans and Polytheists
Character in Virgil
From Constantius to Theodosius
Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century
The Real Circle of Symmachus
Virgil and Tragedy
The puella
The Poem Against the Pagans
Tibullus in first place
Breaking the rules
Time, place and political background
Virgil as a Poet
Virgilian Narrative
Aspects of Virgil’s Reception in Antiquity
The Historia Augusta
Loves and elegy
Caius Cornelius Gallus
Pagan Scholarship
Poetry and Power
The Appendix Vergiliana
The Virgil Commentary of Servius
Macrobius and the “Pagan” Culture of his Age
Militia amoris
The Death of Virgil
Virgilian Didaxis
Rome and its Traditions
Virgil’s Style
Virgil
Virgil in Art
Vergil’s Political Commentary in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid
Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World
For the Most Part Serious
A note on Catullus 63.5
Green Politics
Epic Inclusivity
Classical Revivals and “Pagan” Art
Intra‐Epic Debate
On Not Being Archilochus
Lyric Flexibility
Ambition to Rise
Beyond Pastoral? Generic Pressures in Vergil's Eclogues
The Livian Revival
Conclusion
Introduction
The Frigidus
Critica
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
The Liminal Space
From eschatology to scatology
The Death of Intestate Old Men’
Nisbet on Martial Book 12
Liminality and Catullus's Attis
Play on the Proper Names of Individuals in the Catullan Corpus
Horace to Torquatus
The Origin, Context and Function of Consular Diptychs
Metapoetic Pseudonyms in Horace, Propertius and Ovid
Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace
| Unique citing works | 84 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |