Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception

David Christenson is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the author of eight books, including Plautus: Casina (Bloomsbury, 2019).Cynthia White is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA, and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, David Christenson (University of Arizona, USA)Part I – Sublime Epic1. Homer’s Odyssey and the Mystery of Time, Norman Austin (University of Arizona, USA)2. Helen, Paris, and the Philosophical Eros: Love, Strife, and Sublime Contact from Homer to Plato, Boris Shoshitaishvili (University of Southern California, USA)3. The Hard-Break at Hesiod, Theogony 200, Frank Romer (East Carolina University, USA)4. Visions and Memories of Lucretius in Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones, Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College and Conservatory, USA)5. Vergil’s Bougonia Rite: Its Nature, Sources, and Possible Link to the Indo-European Myth of Creation, Michael Teske† (University of Arizona, USA)Part II – Celestial Drama6. An Early Morning Person? Aristophanes and His Star-Studded Comic Prologues, Gonda van Steen (King's College London, UK)7. Frighteningly Funny Gods: Comic and Cosmic Space in Plautus, David Christenson (University of Arizona, USA)Part III – History, Historiography, and the Cosmos8. Day Suddenly Became Night: Eclipses and the Sublime in Greek Historiography, Philip Waddell (University of Arizona, USA)9. The Cosmic Barrier: The Isthmus of Corinth in Imperial Latin Poetry, David Wright (University of Houston, USA)Part IV – Reception10. Reading the Classics in Plague-Ridden England, 1629-1722, Thomas Willard (University of Arizona, USA)11. '"Solution Sweet" and Keats's Poetic Ideal: Erotic and Nuptial Imagery in The Eve of St. Agnes' , Cynthia White (University of Arizona, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex

This is an excellent study of the idea of the sublime cosmos in ancient Greco-Roman thought: wide ranging, informative, up to date, methodologically diverse and dealing with interesting intersections of myth, history and science.