Jaś Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago and Leverhulme Senior Research Keeper in the Empires of Faith project at the British Museum.Jesús Hernández Lobato is a Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of ContributorsINTRODUCTION:NOTES TOWARDS A POETICS OF LATE ANTIQUE LITERATUREby Ja's Elsner (University of Oxford)and Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca) 1.THE EXPLOSION OF FORM:LATE ANTIQUE EXPERIMENTALISM1. Michael Squire (King's College London): "POP Art: The Optical Poetics of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius"2. Franca Ela Consolino (University of L'Aquilla): "Polymetry in Late Latin Poems: Some Observations on its Meaning and Functions"3. Isabella Gualandri (University of Milan): "Words Pregnant with Meaning: the Power of Single Words in Late Latin Literature" 2.LATE ANTIQUE INTERTEXTUALITY4. Helen Kaufmann (University of Oxford): "Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry"5. Ja? Elsner (University of Oxford): "Caught in the Image: The Narcissus Cento and Late Latin Poetics" 3.PROGRAMMATIC REFLECTIONS:A METALITERARY TWIST6. Marco Formisano (University of Ghent): "Displacing Tradition: A New-Allegorical Reading of Ausonius, Claudian and Rutilius Namatianus"7. Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford): "Metapoetics in the Prefaces of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae"8. Scott McGill (Rice University): "Rewriting Ausonius"9. Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca): "To Speak or Not to Speak: The Birth of a 'Poetics of Silence' in Late Antique Literature" 4.LITERATURE AND POWER10. Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): "The Poetics of Latin Prose Praise and the Fourth Century Curve"11. Catherine Ware (University College Cork): "The Lies the Poets Tell: Poetry in Prose Panegyrics" 5.A NEW LITERARY SPACE:THE CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIAN POETRY 12. Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University): "Lactantius' Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics"13. Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College): "Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics: Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theologus"14. Gillian Clark (University of Bristol): "In Praise of the Wax Candle: Augustine the Poet and Late Latin Literature" BibliographyIndex

This carefully collected and edited volume is a precious resource for the investigation into both poetics and generic innovation in late Latin literature.

Jaś Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago and Leverhulme Senior Research Keeper in the Empires of Faith project at the British Museum.Jesús Hernández Lobato is a Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of ContributorsINTRODUCTION:NOTES TOWARDS A POETICS OF LATE ANTIQUE LITERATUREby Ja's Elsner (University of Oxford)and Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca) 1.THE EXPLOSION OF FORM:LATE ANTIQUE EXPERIMENTALISM1. Michael Squire (King's College London): "POP Art: The Optical Poetics of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius"2. Franca Ela Consolino (University of L'Aquilla): "Polymetry in Late Latin Poems: Some Observations on its Meaning and Functions"3. Isabella Gualandri (University of Milan): "Words Pregnant with Meaning: the Power of Single Words in Late Latin Literature" 2.LATE ANTIQUE INTERTEXTUALITY4. Helen Kaufmann (University of Oxford): "Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry"5. Ja? Elsner (University of Oxford): "Caught in the Image: The Narcissus Cento and Late Latin Poetics" 3.PROGRAMMATIC REFLECTIONS:A METALITERARY TWIST6. Marco Formisano (University of Ghent): "Displacing Tradition: A New-Allegorical Reading of Ausonius, Claudian and Rutilius Namatianus"7. Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford): "Metapoetics in the Prefaces of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae"8. Scott McGill (Rice University): "Rewriting Ausonius"9. Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca): "To Speak or Not to Speak: The Birth of a 'Poetics of Silence' in Late Antique Literature" 4.LITERATURE AND POWER10. Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): "The Poetics of Latin Prose Praise and the Fourth Century Curve"11. Catherine Ware (University College Cork): "The Lies the Poets Tell: Poetry in Prose Panegyrics" 5.A NEW LITERARY SPACE:THE CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIAN POETRY 12. Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University): "Lactantius' Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics"13. Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College): "Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics: Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theologus"14. Gillian Clark (University of Bristol): "In Praise of the Wax Candle: Augustine the Poet and Late Latin Literature" BibliographyIndex

This carefully collected and edited volume is a precious resource for the investigation into both poetics and generic innovation in late Latin literature.

Jaś Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago and Leverhulme Senior Research Keeper in the Empires of Faith project at the British Museum.Jesús Hernández Lobato is a Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSList of ContributorsINTRODUCTION:NOTES TOWARDS A POETICS OF LATE ANTIQUE LITERATUREby Ja's Elsner (University of Oxford)and Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca) 1.THE EXPLOSION OF FORM:LATE ANTIQUE EXPERIMENTALISM1. Michael Squire (King's College London): "POP Art: The Optical Poetics of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius"2. Franca Ela Consolino (University of L'Aquilla): "Polymetry in Late Latin Poems: Some Observations on its Meaning and Functions"3. Isabella Gualandri (University of Milan): "Words Pregnant with Meaning: the Power of Single Words in Late Latin Literature" 2.LATE ANTIQUE INTERTEXTUALITY4. Helen Kaufmann (University of Oxford): "Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry"5. Ja? Elsner (University of Oxford): "Caught in the Image: The Narcissus Cento and Late Latin Poetics" 3.PROGRAMMATIC REFLECTIONS:A METALITERARY TWIST6. Marco Formisano (University of Ghent): "Displacing Tradition: A New-Allegorical Reading of Ausonius, Claudian and Rutilius Namatianus"7. Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford): "Metapoetics in the Prefaces of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae"8. Scott McGill (Rice University): "Rewriting Ausonius"9. Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca): "To Speak or Not to Speak: The Birth of a 'Poetics of Silence' in Late Antique Literature" 4.LITERATURE AND POWER10. Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): "The Poetics of Latin Prose Praise and the Fourth Century Curve"11. Catherine Ware (University College Cork): "The Lies the Poets Tell: Poetry in Prose Panegyrics" 5.A NEW LITERARY SPACE:THE CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIAN POETRY 12. Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University): "Lactantius' Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics"13. Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College): "Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics: Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theologus"14. Gillian Clark (University of Bristol): "In Praise of the Wax Candle: Augustine the Poet and Late Latin Literature" BibliographyIndex

This carefully collected and edited volume is a precious resource for the investigation into both poetics and generic innovation in late Latin literature.