They Keep It All Hid: Augustan Poetry, its Antecedents and Reception

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· Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Book 56 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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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.

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P. E. Knox, Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland OH, H. Pelliccia, Cornell Univ., Ithaca NY, A. Sens, Georgetown Univ., Washington DC

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