Classical constructions [[electronic resource] ] : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean / / edited by S.J. Heyworth ; with P.G. Fowler and S.J. Harrison

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795841003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 9780191527258; 0191527254
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 368 p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): HeyworthS. J; FowlerP. G; HarrisonS. J
• Disciplina: 880.09
• Soggetti: Classical literature - History and criticism; Classical philology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-358) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michele Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. Roberts -- Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure / Andrew Laird -- From man to book : the close of Tacitus' Agricola / Stephen Harrison.