Taking their point of departure from Frederick Ahl’s pioneering work, the distinguished scholars in this volume have come together to re-examine the relation of poetry and power in the context of authoritarian regimes in ancient Rome and to examine...
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Taking their point of departure from Frederick Ahl’s pioneering work, the distinguished scholars in this volume have come together to re-examine the relation of poetry and power in the context of authoritarian regimes in ancient Rome and to examine the ways that poets not only commented on imperial politics, but also were direct participants in the construction of that political reality.
Frontmatter -- -- Table of Contents -- -- Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics From Horace to Silius Italicus -- -- Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos … Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)? -- -- Nominal Intelligence: Conspiracy, Prosopography, and the Secret of Horace, Odes 2.10 -- -- Another Vergilian Signature in the Georgics? -- -- Mora in the Aeneid -- -- Dido and the Owl -- -- Freudian Bullseyes in Classical Perspective: The Psycholinguistics of Guilt in Virgil’s Aeneid -- -- Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus -- -- Violent Retribution and Pietas: The Closure of the Aeneid Revisited -- -- Freedom of Speech in Virgil and Ovid -- -- Love’s Letters: an Amor-Roma Telestich at Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.507–10 -- -- Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid -- -- Pythagoras and Numa in Ovid: Exile and Immortality at Rome -- -- Lucan’s Caesar and Laelius -- -- A Theory of Violence in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile -- -- From Pastoral to Panegyric in Calpurnius Siculus -- -- Speaking Names in Senecan Drama -- -- Civil War, the Soul, and the Cosmos at Seneca, Thyestes 547–622: A Tropology -- -- Doubtful Certainties: The Politics of Reading in Seneca’s Oedipus -- -- Doubting Domitian’s Divinity: Statius Achilleid 1.1–2 -- -- As if: Reflections on an Exemplary Wife -- -- Silius Italicus and Greek Epic: Imperial Culture Wars -- -- List of Contributors -- -- Publications by Frederick Ahl -- -- Index of passages discussed -- -- General Index
