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  title info:
    title: Grattius
    sub title: hunting an Augustan poet
  name:
    name part: Green, Steven J.
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Didactic poetry
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Didactic poetry.
  genre: Poésie didactique.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Grattius' Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author's only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form. Thanks to a passing reference by Ovid in his Epistulae ex Ponto it can confidently be dated to the Augustan period, and yet while his literary contemporaries have been and continue to be subjects of academic scrutiny, Grattius is seldom read and remains almost completely unappreciated in classical and literary scholarship. This volume is the first book-length study of Grattius in English or any other language and sets out to rehabilitate the neglected poet by making him and his work accessible to a wide audience. Prefaced by an introduction to the poet and his work, as well as the Latin text of Cynegetica and a new English translation, it presents a broad collection of interpretive essays from an international team of scholars. These essays explore the poem within its literary, intellectual, and sociopolitical contexts and look forward to Grattius' (more charitable) posthumous reception in Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. As a whole they aim to reveal his enduring relevance for the tradition of didactic poetry and the study of other Augustan poetry and culture, and to provide an impetus for future discussions.
  table of contents: Text and translation -- Part I. Roman Didactic and Epic Interactions -- Grattius' Cynegetica : a protean poem at the heart of the Roman didactic tradition / Giulia Fanti -- 'Te sociam, ratio...' : hunting as paradigm in the Cynegetica / Monica R. Gale -- Hunt as war and war as hunt : Grattius' Cynegetica and Virgil's Aeneid / Boris Kayachev -- Ars venandi : the art of hunting in Grattius' Cynegetica and Ovid's Ars amatoria / Christina Tsaknaki -- Part II. Hunting and the World -- Motion in Grattius / G.O. Hutchinson -- Grattius and Augustus : hunting for an Emperor / Steven J. Green -- Part III. Mythical Hunters -- The conditions of poetic immortality : Epicurus, Daphnis, and Hagnon / Lisa Whitlach -- Authorial surrogates in Grattius' Cynegetica / Donncha O'Rourke -- Part IV. Grattius in the Early Modern Period -- Hunting with hounds in Neo-Latin : the reception of Grattius from Fracastoro to Vaniere / Victoria Moul -- Hunting and the seventeenth-century English gentleman : Christopher Wase's translation of Grattius' Cynegeticon (1654) / Mike Waters -- Appendix : Slaves, poetry, and the case against transposition of Verses 61-74.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Steven J. Green.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Faliscus
      name part: Grattius
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Faliscus
      name part: Grattius
  subject:
    topic: POETRY
    topic: Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  classification: PA6392.G6 G73 2018eb
  classification: 871.01
  identifier: 9780191093432
  identifier: 0191093432
  identifier: 9780191831010
  identifier: 0191831018
  identifier: 9780198789017
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AZU
    record creation date: 171215
    record change date: 20260319164524.6
    record identifier: in00005715440
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng