Teresa Ramsby

Textual Permanence (eBook, PDF)

Roman Elegists and Epigraphic Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Textual Permanence is the first book to examine the influence of the Roman epigraphic tradition on Latin elegiac poetry. The frequent use of invented inscriptions within the works of Rome's elegiac poets suggests a desire to monumentalise elements of the poems and the authors themselves. This book explores inscriptional writing in the elegies of Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid, showing that whenever an author includes an inscription within a poem, he draws the reader's attention beyond the text of the poem to include the cultural contexts in which such inscriptions were daily read and produced. The emphases that these inscriptions grant to persons, sentiments and actions within the poems are reflections of the permanence that real-life inscriptions grant to a variety of human efforts. These poetic inscriptions provide unique windows of interpretation to some of Rome's most significant and influential poems. Teresa Ramsby traces an important relationship between the Roman tradition that honoured individual participation in Roman politics, and the way that elegiac poetry was early applied in Rome to the same activity. In the course of the book she offers fresh interpretations of poems that have been analysed by a host of scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 197
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472537799
• Artikelnr.: 42516807

Autorenporträt

Teresa Ramsby is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Elegy and the Inscription
2. Epitaphic Revelations in Catullus and Propertius
3. Tibullan Inscriptions: Between Self and Persona
4. Naso's Inscriptions
5. The Heroides Inscriptions
6. Ovid's Epic Inscriptions
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Indices
Index inscriptionum
Index nominum
Index operum maiorum
Index rerum