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Record Nr.

UNINA9910134803503321

Autore

Karakasis Evangelos

Titolo

T. Calpurnius Siculus : a pastoral poet in neronian Rome / / Evangelos Karakasis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-047269-4

3-11-047325-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Trends in Classics-Supplementary Volumes, , 1868-4785 ; ; Volume 35

Disciplina

809.1914

Soggetti

Pastoral poetry

Theology in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface – Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Calpurnius 1 -- Calpurnius 4 -- Calpurnius 7 -- Calpurnius 3 -- Calpurnius 5 -- Calpurnius 2 -- Calpurnius 6 -- General Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index

Sommario/riassunto

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius' pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurnius’ epigonal and generically transcending poetics and meta-poetics through a thorough comparative analysis of the generic interfaces between the bucolic host genre (as bequeathed to Siculus from Theocritus to Vergil) and various generic modes which operate in Calpurnius’ eclogues, such as epic, panegyric, elegiac, didactic/georgic. The analysis includes themes/motifs, intertexts and allusion, narrative sequences, diction and metre as well as meta-generic/meta-poetic signs, including Calpurnius' redirection and inversion of the Callimachean-neoteric poetological meta-language. The study’s interests also revolve around the ways in which Neronian ideology and imperial politics inform the pastoral narrative and often account for the formalistic change discerned as well as the manner in which Post-Classical diction



functions as a targeted, self-conscious linguistic tell-tale of generic evolution. The book is intended for students or scholars working on or interested in Roman pastoral and its generic evolution as well as Neronian Literature.