Selected Papers On Ancient Literature And Its Reception

Download or read book Selected Papers on Ancient Literature and its Reception written by Philip Hardie and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together about two thirds of the articles and essays published between 1983 and 2021 by Philip Hardie, whose work on ancient literature has been of seminal importance in the field. The centre of gravity lies in late Republican and Augustan poetry, in particular Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid, with important contributions on wider Augustan culture; on Neronian and Flavian epic; on the Latin poetry of late antiquity; and on the reception of Latin poetry.