Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts) PDF
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TTTTTTThhhhhhhiiiiiiisssssss pppppppaaaaaaagggggggeeeeeee iiiiiiinnnnnnnttttttteeeeeeennnnnnntttttttiiiiiiiooooooonnnnnnnaaaaaaallllllllllllllyyyyyyy llllllleeeeeeefffffffttttttt bbbbbbblllllllaaaaaaannnnnnnkkkkkkk This page intentionally left blank Inconsistency in Roman Epic How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistenciesinancienttextsneededtobeemended,explainedaway,or lamented.BuildingonrecentworkonbothGreekandRomanauthors,this bookexploresthepossibilityofinterpretinginconsistenciesinRomanepic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy,PlatoandtheAlexandrians,fivechaptersarguethatcomparative studyoftheliteraryuseofinconsistenciescanshedlightonmajorprob- lemsinCatullus’PeleusandThetis,Lucretius’DeRerumNatura,Vergil’s Aeneid,Ovid’sMetamorphoses,andLucan’sBellumCivile.Notallincon- sistenciescanorshouldbeinterpretedthematically,butnumerousdetails inthesepoems,andsomeancientandmoderntheorists,suggestthatwecan bebetterreadersifweconsiderhowinconsistenciesmaybefunctioning inGreekandRomantexts. James J. O’Hara is George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill.HeistheauthorofDeathand theOptimisticProphecyinVergil’sAeneid(1990)andTrueNames:Vergil andtheAlexandrianTraditionofEtymologicalWordplay(1996),aswell asnumerousarticlesandreviewsonLatinliterature. ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS InconsistencyinRomanEpic ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS Serieseditors: DenisFeeneyandStephenHinds ThisseriespromotesapproachestoRomanliteraturewhichareopentodialogue withcurrentworkinotherareasoftheclassics,andinthehumanitiesatlarge. Thepursuitofcontactswithcognatefieldssuchassocialhistory,anthropology, historyofthought,linguisticsandliterarytheoryisinthebesttraditionsofclassical scholarship:thestudyofRomanliterature,nolessthanGreek,hasmuchtogain from engaging with these other contexts and intellectual traditions. The series offersaforuminwhichreadersofLatintextscansharpentheirreadingsbyplacing theminbroaderandbetter-definedcontexts,andinwhichotherclassicistsand humanists can explore the general or particular implications of their work for readersofLatintexts.Thebooksallconstituteoriginalandinnovativeresearch andareenvisagedassuggestiveessayswhoseaimistostimulatedebate. Otherbooksintheseries JosephFarrell,LatinlanguageandLatinculture:fromancientto moderntimes A.M.Keith,EngenderingRome:womeninLatinepic WilliamFitzgerald,SlaveryandtheRomanliteraryimagination StephenHinds,Allusionandintertext:dynamicsofappropriationin Romanpoetry DenisFeeney,LiteratureandreligionatRome:cultures,contexts, andbeliefs CatharineEdwards,WritingRome:textualapproachestothecity DuncanF.Kennedy,Theartsoflove:fivestudiesinthediscourseofRoman loveelegy CharlesMartindale,Redeemingthetext:Latinpoetryandthehermeneutics ofreception PhilipHardie,TheepicsuccessorsofVirgil:astudyinthedynamics ofatradition AlainGowing,Empireandmemory:therepresentationoftheRoman Republicinimperialculture RichardHunter,TheshadowofCallimachus:studiesinthereceptionof HellenisticpoetryatRome Inconsistency in Roman Epic Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan JamesJ.O’Hara PaddisonProfessorofLatin TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521641395 © Cambridge University Press 2006 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-29479-2 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-29479-4 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-64139-5 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-64139-X hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-64642-0 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-64642-1 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
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