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Augustan poetry and the irrational / Philip Hardie

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New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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First edition.
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1 online resource
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Hardie, Philip R.
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Augustan Poetry and the Irrational / Philip Hardie -- pt. 1 Civil War: Expiation and the Return of the Repressed -- 2.My Enemy's Enemy is My Enemy: Virgil's Illogical Use of metus hostilis / Elena Giusti -- 3.Orestes, Aeneas, and Augustus: Madness and Tragedy in Virgil's Aeneid / Stefano Rebeggiani -- 4.The Night of Reason: The Esquiline and Witches in Horace / Mario Labate -- pt. 2 Order and Disorder: Counting and Accounts -- 5.Beyond `Cosmos' and `Logos': An Irrational Cosmology in Virgil, Georgics 1.231--58? / Christian D. Hab -- 6.The Magic of Counting: On the Cantatoric Status of Poetry (Catullus 5 and 7; Horace Odes 1.11) / Jurgen Paul Schwindt -- 7.Under the Influence: Maecenas and Bacchus in Georgics 2 / Emily Gowers -- pt. 3 Reason and Desire -- 8.Apollo in Tibullus 2.3 and 2.5 / Jane Burkowski -- 9.The ars rhetorica: An Ovidian remedium for Female furor? / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- 10.Augustan Gothic: Alexander Pope Reads Ovid / William Fitzgerald -- 11.The Madness of Elegy: Rationalizing Propertius / Donncha O'Rourke -- pt. 4 Self-contradictions: Philosophy and Rhetoric -- 12.The Value of Self-deception: Horace, Aristippus, Heraclides Ponticus, and the Pleasures of the Fool (and of the Poet) / Mario Citroni -- 13.Irrational Panegyric in Augustan Poetry / S. J. Heyworth -- pt. 5 Virgilian Figures of the Irrational -- 14.Caderent omnes a crinibus hydri: The Problems of the Irrational in the Juno and Allecto Episode in Aeneid 7 / Severine Clement-Tarantino -- 15.Adamastor and the Epic Poet's Dark Continent / Philip Hardie.
Summary
'Augustan Poetry and the Irrational', with contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars, examines the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explores elements of post-classical reception.
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ISBN
9780191792250 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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