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The literature and art of Augustan Rome are often thought of as the product of an age of high classicism, characterized by maturity, balance, and harmony. This volume examines the presence of what might be seen as an unclassical love of paradox and the marvellous, and shows that it is an important strain in the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, as well as in prose works of history and rhetoric, and in the Augustan visual arts. The volume includes chapters by some of the leading experts in the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars. It will be of interest to all students of Roman literature and culture.
Philip Hardie is Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.
1. Introduction: Paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture ; 2. Horace's Ars poetica and the marvellous ; 3. Where the wild things are: locating the marvellous in Augustan wall-painting ; 4. Against nature? Some Augustan responses to man-made marvels ; 5. Virgil: a paradoxical poet? ; 6. The question of the marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil ; 7. In search of the lost Hercules: strategies of the marvellous in the Aeneid ; 8. Thaumatographia, or 'What is a theme?' ; 9. Phaethon and the monsters ; 10. Prodigiosa mendacia uatum. Responses to the marvellous in Ovid's narrative of Perseus (Metamorphoses 4-5) ; 11. Encountering the fantastic: expectations, forms of communication, reactions ; 12. Constructing a narrative of mira deum: the story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid Metamorphoses 8) ; 13. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-51: noua monstra and the foedera naturae ; 14. Alien divinities. How to tame monsters through aetiology ; 15. Ordering wonderland: Ovid's Pythagoras and the Augustan vision ; 16. Delusions of grandeur: Lucretian 'passages' in Livy ; 17. The strange art of the sententious declaimer
A refreshing and remarkably coherant collection edited by Philip Hardie.
HARDIE CHENEY, Hardie Cheney, Patrick Cheney, Philip Hardie, Pennsylvania State University) Cheney, Patrick (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cambridge) Hardie, Philip (Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature, Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature, Trinity College
David Norbrook, Stephen Harrison, Philip Hardie, University of Oxford) Norbrook, David (Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford) Harrison, Stephen (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Latin Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Latin Literature, University of Cambridge) Hardie, Philip (Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature