Grattius : hunting an Augustan poet /
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 liter...
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2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.