Grattius

Steven J. Green is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale-NUS College Singapore and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. He specializes in Roman literature and culture of the first centuries BCE and CE and his major publications have so far focused around Ovid, Manilius, Roman didactic poetry, the interaction between Roman literature and religious experience, and the reception of the classical world in twenty-first-century Hollywood film. His latest monograph is Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries (OUP, 2014).

• FrontmatterList of ContributorsIntroductionText and TranslationRoman Didactic and Epic Interactions1: Giulia Fanti: Grattius' Cynegetica: A Protean Poem at the Heart of the Roman Didactic Tradition2: Monica R. Gale: 'te sociam, Ratio . . .': Hunting as Paradigm in the Cynegetica3: Boris Kayachev: Hunt as War and War as Hunt: Grattius' Cynegetica and Virgil's Aeneid4: Christina Tsaknaki: Ars Venandi: The Art of Hunting in Grattius' Cynegetica and Ovid's Ars AmatoriaHunting and the World5: G. O. Hutchinson: Motion in Grattius6: Steven J. Green: Grattius and Augustus: Hunting for an EmperorMythical Hunters7: Lisa Whitlatch: The Conditions of Poetic Immortality: Epicurus, Daphnis, and Hagnon8: Donncha O Rourke: Authorial Surrogates in Grattius' CynegeticaGrattius in the Early Modern Period9: Victoria Moul: Hunting with Hounds in Neo-Latin: The Reception of Grattius from Fracastoro to Vanière10: Mike Waters: Hunting and the Seventeenth-Century English Gentleman: Christopher Wase's Translation of Grattius' Cynegeticon (1654)Appendix: Slaves, Poetry, and the Case against Transposition of Verses 61-74EndmatterBibliographyIndex

The essays in this volume have moved the scholarly discourse on Cynegetica to the next level. This will be a must-consult for anyone working on Grattius or on ancient hunting. And while it may not singlehandedly produce a Grattian turn in classical scholarship, it should nonetheless serve to persuade scholars of Augustan poetry that they at least need to read Grattius and think of him when thinking about their literary epoch.