Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets

John F. Miller is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, where he has been Chair of the Department of Classics for many years. He is the author of Ovid's Elegiac Festivals. Studies in the Fasti and of numerous articles on various Roman poets, especially Ovid.

• Introduction; 1. Octavian and Apollo; 2. Apollo at Actium; 3. Apollo and the legend of Aeneas; 4. Apollo Palatinus; 5. Apollo and the New Age; 6. Apolline poetics and Augustus; 7. Ovid's Metamorphoses and Augustan Apollo.

"Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets offers learned and engaging readings of many of the central works of Augustan poetry. It overlooks no relevant Augustan or Republican evidence and provides an ample account of relevant Greek literary tradition, even including the less-familiar responses to Actium by contemporary Greek poets. ...allows considerable openness to a multiplicity of interpretations, including ones fully resistant to dominant Augustan ideology. ..this book comes highly recommended to all readers of Augustan poetry. --BMCR