Latin Hexameter Poetry and its Reception

Earlier versions of most of the papers included in this volume were delivered at a conference held in 2022 to honour Philip Hardie on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Seven chapters are concerned with Virgil, the author on whom Professor Hardie has worked most. Alessandro Barchiesi discusses the influence of Lycophron on the Aeneid, Sergio Casali the passing of time in books 8–10 of the Aeneid, Joseph Farrell the ethnicity of Iopas, Elena Giusti Dido, George Kazantzidis Sophocles and the Georgics, Stephen Oakley Ascanius’ education, and Gail Trimble Virgil and Catullus. In other chapters, Stephen Hinds writes about Ausonius, Aaron Kachuck about Horace, and Alessandro Schiesaro about Ovid, and Ingo Gildenhard discusses the broad topic of epic justice. The reception of Latin poetry, another subject to which Professor Hardie has devoted much energy, is the subject of other papers: Maya Feile Tomes writes about the reception of Ovid’s poetry from exile in the Latin literature of South America, Stephen Harrison about Thomas Campion’s De pulverea coniuratione, Yasmin Haskell about Lucretius and the Jesuits, and Helen Lovatt about the reception of the Aeneid in the works of Ursula Le Guin.