Afterlives of the Roman Poets

Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Her publications include Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (2013) and (edited with Barbara Graziosi) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture (2018).

• Introduction; 1. Medieval Ovids; 2. Staging the poets: Ben Jonson's Poetaster; 3. Lucan and revolution; 4. Lucretius and modern subjectivity; 5. The death of the author: Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil; Post-mortem.

'… this book offers a wealth of interesting observations of detail on the medieval, early modern and modern works investigated, as the novel approach of a 'biofictional' perspective enables studying these writings from a distinct perspective, leading to new insights and clearer descriptions of previous observations.' Gesine Manuwald, International Journal of the Classical Tradition