Greek versions -- Catullus 64 : variants and the virtues of heroes -- Death, inconsistency, and the Epicurean poet -- Voices, variants, and inconsistency in the Aeneid -- Inconsistency and authority in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Postscript : Lucan's...
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Greek versions -- Catullus 64 : variants and the virtues of heroes -- Death, inconsistency, and the Epicurean poet -- Voices, variants, and inconsistency in the Aeneid -- Inconsistency and authority in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Postscript : Lucan's Bellum Civile and the inconsistent Roman epic. How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be emended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic
