From Poetry to History

Selected Papers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av A. J. Woodman, University of Virginia) Woodman, A. J. (Gildersleeve Professor of Classics

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From Poetry to History offers twenty-five selected papers by the leading Latin scholar A. J. Woodman, and focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD.Most of the papers represent close readings of individual poems or passages of text. The authors principally featured are Catullus, Horace, and especially Tacitus, but there are also treatments of Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Augustus' Res Gestae, Velleius, and the younger Pliny.The volume includes four papers not previously published, as well as an epilogue which discusses some of the issues raised.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-02-23
Mått147 x 221 x 31 mm
Vikt698 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor462
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199608652

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A. J. Woodman started his career at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1968-80), where he was previously an undergraduate. He was then successively Professor of Latin at Leeds University (1980-84), and Durham University (1984-2004), before moving to his present position as Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has written and edited numerous books on both Latin literature and ancient historical texts.