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The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius Katharina Volk https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.001.0001 Published: 2002 Online ISBN: 9780191714986 Print ISBN: 9780199245505 FRONT MATTER Copyright Page https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.002.0003 Page iv Published: June 2002 Subject: Classical Poetry p. iv This book has been printed digitally and produced in a standard speci�cation in order to ensure its continuing availability graphic Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With o�ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan South Korea Poland Portugal Singapore Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Katharina Volk 2002 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) Reprinted 2008 All rights reserved No part of this publication maybe reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover And you must impose this same condition on any acquirer ISBN 978-0-19-924550-5 The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius Katharina Volk https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.001.0001 Published: 2002 Online ISBN: 9780191714986 Print ISBN: 9780199245505 FRONT MATTER Dedication https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.002.0004 Pages v–vi Published: June 2002 Subject: Classical Poetry pp.. vvi PARENTIBVS OPTIMIS The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius Katharina Volk https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.001.0001 Published: 2002 Online ISBN: 9780191714986 Print ISBN: 9780199245505 FRONT MATTER Preface https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.002.0005 Pages vii–viii Published: June 2002 Subject: Classical Poetry Many of the most famous literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity—for example, Hesiod’s Works and Days, the poem of Lucretius, and Vergil’s Georgics—are didactic poems. Still, while these texts continue to be read and studied, their generic status is not typically the object of scholarly investigation, and neither is the genre of ancient didactic poetry as a whole. This may have something to do with our wariness of anything that is or purports to be ‘didactic’; as a matter of fact, the student of this genre is not infrequently faced with miscomprehension on the part of classicists and non-classicists alike (‘Didactic poetry? Sounds awful.’). Nevertheless, by understanding what it is that sets a particular body of texts apart as a speci�c genre, we are able to appreciate better the qualities of the individual texts, and especially in the case of a comparatively neglected type of literature such as didactic poetry, attention to generic characteristics can contribute in important ways to our interpretation even of otherwise well-studied works. In this book, I both provide a discussion of the genre of didactic poetry as a whole and examine in detail four great Latin didactic poems, Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Vergil’s Georgics, Ovid’s Ars amatoria and Remedia anions (which I treat as a unity), and Manilius’ Astronomica. My object is to show that there are certain de�ning characteristics of the genre and to trace the permutations of these features through the individual texts. Special attention will be given to the ‘poetics’ of these works, that is, to what each didactic poem has to say about its being poetry and how it presents the relationship between poetic form and didactic subject matter, or, to quote Manilius, between carmen and res. Contrary to popular associations of didacticism with the dry and prosaic, it will turn out that ancient didactic poetry is in fact especially self-consciously ‘poetic’. The book is a revised and expanded version of my 1999 Princeton Ph.D. thesis and would never have been written without the support of my adviser Elaine Fantham and the other members of my dissertation committee, Andrew Ford, Stephen Harrison, and Robert Kaster. In addition, I am grateful to Greta Austin, p. viii John Cooper, Richard Hunter, and René Nünlist for enlightening discussion of individual matters and to Ryan Balot, Joseph Farrell, and the late Don Fowler for allowing me to use and cite unpublished material. My editor at Oxford University Press, Hilary O’Shea, has been extremely helpful, as have Enid Barker, Lucy Qureshi, and Jenny Wagsta�e; I should also like to thank Rowena Anketell for her diligence in copy-editing the manuscript and the two anonymous readers of the Press for their comments. I am grateful to Oxford University Press for permission to cite from the Oxford Classical Texts of Lucretius (ed. Bailey, 2nd edn. 1922), Vergil (ed. Mynors 1969), and Ovid (amatory works, ed. Kenney, 2nd edn. 1994) and to K. G. Saur Verlag for permission to quote the Teubner text of Manilius (ed. Goold, 2nd edn. 1998). Special thanks go to my husband Joshua, whose love and expertise have accompanied this work since its beginning. Finally, the book is dedicated to my parents, who have taught me a lot without ever being didactic. KV Lewisburg, June 2001 The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius Katharina Volk https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.001.0001 Published: 2002 Online ISBN: 9780191714986 Print ISBN: 9780199245505 FRONT MATTER Abbreviations https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.002.0007 Pages xi–xii Published: June 2002 Subject: Classical Poetry Throughout the text and bibliography, references to classical texts typically follow the style of abbreviations of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edn.). A list of abbreviations for periodicals and other publications is appended. A&A Antike undAbendland AAWM Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Mainz, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse AC L’Antiquité classique AGPh Archiv�r Geschichte der Philosophie AJPh Amencan Journal of Philology ANRW W. Haase and H. Temporini (eds.) (1972– ).Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Berlin: de Gruyter A&R Atene e Roma ARW Archiv für Religionswissenschaft ASNP Annali della Scuola Normale Supenore di Pisa BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London CB Classical Bulletin CGF G. Kaibel (1899).Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Berlin: Weidmann CH A. Nock and A. J. Festugière (eds.) (1946-54). Corpus Hermeticum, 4 vols. Paris: Les Belles Lettres CJ Classical Journal CPh Classical Philology CQ Classical Quarterly FPL W. Morel, K. Büchner, and J. Blänsdorf (eds.) (1995). Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum Epicorum et Lyricorum (3rd edn.). Stuttgart: Teubner GIF Giornale italiano di �lologia Gramm. Lat. H. Keil (ed.) (1855-80). Grammatici Latini, 8 vols. Leipzig: Teubner GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies G&R Greece & Rome p. xii HSPh Harvard Studies in Classical Philology ICS Illinois Classical Studies LCM Liverpool Classical Monthly LSJ H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. S.Jones (eds.) (1996). A Greek English Lexicon With a Revised Supplement (9th edn.). Oxford: Oxford University Press MD Materiali e discussioniper Vanalisi dei testi classici MDAI(R) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Römische >Abteilung) MH Museum Helveticum OLD P. G. W. Glare (ed.) (1983).Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pauly- Wissowa A. F. von Pauly, G. Wissowa, and W. Kroll (eds.) (1894–1980).Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart and Munich: Metzler/Druckenmüller PCPhS Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society PQ Philological Quarterly QS Quaderni di storia RAL Rendiconti delta Classe di Science morali, storiche e �lologiche dell’Accademia dei Lincei REA Revue des études anciennes RFIC Rivista di �lologia e di istruzione classica RhM Rheinisches Museum RLAC T. Klauser (ed.) (1950– ). Reallexikon fur Antike und Christentum: Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken Welt. Stuttgart: Hiersemann SICF Studi italiani di�lologia classica SO Symbolae Osloenses SVF H. F. A. von Arnim (ed.) (1903-24).Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta, 4 vols. Leipzig: Teubner TAPhA Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association WJA Würzburger jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft WS Wiener Studien YClS Yale Classical Studies The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius Katharina Volk https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.001.0001 Published: 2002 Online ISBN: 9780191714986 Print ISBN: 9780199245505 FRONT MATTER Note on Texts https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199245505.002.0008 Pages xiii–xiv Published: June 2002 Subject: Classical Poetry The editions used for the major works discussed in this book are as follows: Lucretius, De rerum natura, ed. Cyril Bailey (Oxford Classical Text, 2nd edn. 1922). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Manilius, Astronomica, ed. George P. Goold (Teubner, 2nd edn. 1998), © K. G. Saur Verlag. Reprinted by permission of K. G. Saur Verlag. Ovid, AmoreSy Medicamina faciei femineae, Ars amatona, Remedia amoris, ed. E. J. Kenney (Oxford Classical Text, 2nd edn. 1994), © Oxford University Press, 1961,1994. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Vergil, Opera, ed. R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford Classical Text, 1969), © Oxford University Press, 1969. Reprinted by p. xiv permission of Oxford University Press.
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