Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volum They Keep It All Hid: Augustan Poetry Its Antecedents and Reception Book 56 (Hardcover)

This volume comprises a series of studies focusing on the Latin poetry of the first and second centuries BCE its relationship to earlier models both Greek and Latin and its reception by later writers. A point of particular focus is the influence of Greek poetry including not only Hellenistic writers like Callimachus Theocritus and Lycophron but also archaic poets like Pindar and Bacchylides. The volume also includes studies of style as well as treatments of the influence of Latin poetry on writers like Marvell and Dylan. Contributers include J. N. Adams Barbara Weiden Boyd Brian Breed Sergio Casali Julia Hejduk Peter Knox Leah Kronenburg Charles Martindale Charles McNelis James O Hara Thomas Palaima Hayden Pelliccia David Petrain David Ross and Alexander Sens.