The poetics of Latin didactic : Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius /

In a revision of her dissertation (from Princeton in 1999), Volk sets out to redeem the neglected genre of didactic poetry by exploring the theory of poetics found in five such texts: Lucretius' De rerum natura, Virgil's Georgics, Ovid's Ars amatoria, and Remedia amoris, and Manilius&...

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Main Author:	Volk, Katharina, 1969-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Remedia amoris. Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Ars amatoria. Lucretius Carus, Titus. > De rerum natura. Manilius, Marcus. > Astronomicon. Virgil. > Georgica. Ars amatoria (Ovid) Astronomicon (Manilius, Marcus) De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) Georgica (Virgil) Remedia amoris (Ovid) Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism. Poésie didactique latine > Histoire et critique. Didactic poetry, Latin. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:	In a revision of her dissertation (from Princeton in 1999), Volk sets out to redeem the neglected genre of didactic poetry by exploring the theory of poetics found in five such texts: Lucretius' De rerum natura, Virgil's Georgics, Ovid's Ars amatoria, and Remedia amoris, and Manilius' Astronomica. A discussion of the history of the didactic genre and the essential qualities of the didactic poem precede the close reading of the five poems. Volk provides English translation of the longer passages along with the original Latin. c. Book News Inc.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 288 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-267) and indexes.
ISBN:	9780191714986 0191714984