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Title

Iambic poetics in the Roman Empire / Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University.

Author

Hawkins, Tom, 1972-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description

xi, 334 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"This is the first book to study the impact of invective poetics associated with early Greek iambic poetry on Roman imperial authors and audiences. It demonstrates how authors as varied as Ovid and Gregory Nazianzen wove recognizable elements of the iambic tradition (e.g. meter, motifs, or poetic biographies) into other literary forms (e.g. elegy, oratorical prose, anthologies of fables), and it shows that the humorous, scurrilous, efficacious aggression of Archilochus continued to facilitate negotiations of power and social relations long after Horace's Epodes. The eclectic approach encompasses Greek and Latin, prose and poetry, and exploratory interludes appended to each chapter help to open four centuries of later classical literature to wider debates about the function, propriety and value of the lowest and most debated poetic form from archaic Greece. Each chapter presents a unique variation on how these imperial authors became Archilochus - however briefly and to whatever end"--

Subjects

• Archilochus > Criticism and interpretation
• Latin literature > Greek influences
• Iambic poetry, Classical > History and criticism
• Greek language > Metrics and rhythmics
• Archilochus > Influence
• Latin language > Metrics and rhythmics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Iambus delayed: Ovid's Ibis; Interlude 1. 'Bad artists imitate, great artists steal': Martial and the trope of not being iambic; 2. Iambos denied: Babrius' Mythiambi; Interlude 2. Iambopoioi after Babrius; 3. The Christian iambopoios: Gregory Nazianzen; Interlude 3. Palladas and epigrammatic iambos; 4. Archilochus in Tarsus: Dio Chrysostom's First Tarsian; Interlude 4. Begging with Hipponax; 5. Playful aggression: Lucian's Pseudologista; Interlude 5. Neobule in love: the Ps.-Lucianic Amores; 6. Festive iambos: Julian's Misopogon; Interlude 6. Iambic time travel: Julian the Egyptian on Archilochus; Conclusions: becoming Archilochus.

Call Number

JFE 14-4674

ISBN

• 9781107012080 (hardback)
• 1107012082 (hardback)

LCCN

2013037428

OCLC

863196823

Author

Hawkins, Tom, 1972- author.

Title

Iambic poetics in the Roman Empire / Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Research Call Number

JFE 14-4674