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between literary reception and material culture
1 online resource (xvi, 364 pages) : illustrations
This book explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets—real and imagined—are crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. The volume makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called ‘Tomb of Virgil', from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves to the ‘graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays in this volume demonstrate how the tombs of the ancient poets shape and in turn are shaped by literary history.
Part I. Material Texts, Textual Materials: -- Silent bones and singing stones: materializing the poetic corpus in Hellenistic Greece / Verity Piatt -- Simonides on tombs, and the `Tomb of Simonides' / Richard Rawles -- Ennius' imago between tomb and text / Francesco Martelli -- Portrait of the poet as a young man : the tomb of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus on the Via Salaria / Valentina Garulli -- Ovid's tombs : afterlives of a poetic corpus / Nora Goldschmidt -- Part II. The Poet as Character -- Earth, nature, and the cult of the tomb : the posthumous reception of Aeschylus Hews / Emmanuela Bakola -- Tombs of poets' minor characters / Peter Bing -- Still singing : the case of Orpheus / Barbara Graziosi -- Part III. Collecting Tombs: -- Poets' corners in Greek epigram collections / Regina Hoschele -- Impermanent stones, permanent plants : the tombs of poets as material objects in the Palatine anthology / Silvia Montiglio -- Pausanias' dead poets society / Johanna Hanink -- Part IV. The Tomb of Virgil: -- Dead letters and buried meaning : approaching the tomb of Virgil / Andrew Laird -- Tomb of virgil between text, memory, and site / Irene Peirano Garrison -- Virgil's tomb in scholarly and popular culture / Harald Hendrix -- Ruins and reputations : the tomb of the poet in visual art / Sam Smiles.
edited by Nora Goldschmidt and Barbara Graziosi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.