Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 13

Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry; Flavian and post-Flavian Latin Poetry; Greek and Roman Prose

Edited by Francis Cairns

ISBN 978-0905205-50-2. ARCA 48. viii+390pp. Cloth. 2008.

CONTENTS

Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry

B. Acosta-Hughes (University of Michigan) : Unwilling Farewell and Complex Allusion (Sappho, Callimachus and: Aeneid 6.458) (1-11)

M.W. Dickie (University of St Andrews): The ‘Іππκά of Posidippus (13-54)

Alex Hardie (University of Edinburgh) : An Augustan Hymn to the Muses (Horace Odes 3.4). Part I (55-118) (Part II is published in PLLS 14)

Philip Hardie (Trinity College, Cambridge) : Horace's Sublime Yearnings: Lucretian Ironies (119-172)

S.J. Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) : Horace Epistles 2: the Last Horatian Book of Sermones? (173-186)

Andreas N. Michalopoulos (University of Athens) : Ars latet arte sua: Rhetoric and Poetry in Phyllis' Letter to Demophoon: (Ovid Heroides 2) (187-210)

Flavian and post-Flavian Latin Poetry

Tim Stover (The Florida State University) : The Date of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (211-229)

Alison Keith (Victoria College, University of Toronto) : Etymological Wordplay in Flavian Epic (231-253)

Robert Maltby (University of Leeds) : Verbal and Thematic Links between Poems and Books in Martial (255-268)

Lindsay Watson (University of Sydney) : Juvenal Satire 6: Misogyny or Misogamy? The Evidence of Protreptics on: Marriage (269-296)

Greek and Roman Prose

D.H. Berry (University of Edinburgh) : Letters from an Advocate: Pliny's 'Vesuvius' Narratives (Epistles 6.16, 6.20) (297-313)

Robin Seager (University of Liverpool) : Individual Rivalries in Plutarch's Late Republican Lives (315-364)

Therese Fuhrer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) : Augustine on the Power and Weakness of Words (365-383)

Index of selected passages