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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816786003321

Titolo

Philodemus and poetry : poetic theory and practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace / / edited by Dirk Obbink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-770493-X

1-280-54004-4

0-19-535854-6

1-4294-0653-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

ObbinkDirk

Disciplina

881.01

881/.0109

Soggetti

Classical poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Classical poetry - History and criticism

Aesthetics, Ancient

Poetics - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry; 2. Epicurean Poetics; 3. Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue; 4. The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet; 5. The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry; 6. Reconstructing Philodemus' On Poems; 7. Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion; 8. Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry; 9. Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric; 10. How to Read Poetry about Gods; 11. The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry

12. Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace's Satires; Appendix 1. Philodemus, On Poems Book 5; Appendix 2. Philodemus on Poetics, Music, and Rhetoric: A Classified Bibliography; General Bibliography; Contributors; Index of Passages Discussed; Index of Greek and Latin Words; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Designed to offer a critical survey of trends and developments in recent scholarship on Philodemus of Gadara and Hellenistic literary theory, the



essays in this volume examine the papyrus texts of Philodemus' treatises on poetry and the related subjects of rhetoric and music.