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Roman History in Roman Poetry

Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 19, 2024

Edited by Francis Cairns and Trevor Luke

ISBN 9780995461246. Hard cover. xviii +366 pp.

Arca (Classical and  Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs) 58

Publication  September 1, 2024


In Roman History in Roman poetry (the 19th volume of PLLS) distinguished international scholars explore aspects of how historical and historiographical concerns were represented in or affected by Roman poetry. The essays, ranging chronologically from Roman pre-history through the late Republic and early Empire up to the Flavian age, look at the topic in Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Lucan, and Silius, with a concluding paper on the female poet Sulpicia, commenting circumspectly on the politics of the reign of Domitian.

CONTENTS

Introduction (Trevor Luke): Poetry, History, Historiography

T.P. Wiseman
Before Naevius: Poetry and History in Early Rome

Donncha O’Rourke (University of Edinburgh)
Lucretius redacts Thucydides: the Athenian: Plague in De Rerum Natura 6.1138–1286

Alex Hardie (University of Edinburgh)
Pollio and Apollo in the Eclogues

Alex Hardie (University of Edinburgh)
Laomedon in the Pre-History of Rome (Vergil, Georgics 1.463–514)

Jason Nethercut (University of South Florida)
Pyrrhus in Virgil, Lucretius and Ennius

W.J. Tatum (Victoria University of Wellington)
Virgil, Caesar, Furius, and Gallic War

S.J. Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Lyric, Tragedy and History in Horace Odes 2.1

Francis Cairns (Florida State University)
Propertius 1.21 and 1.22: Unity, Gallan influence, Text, Genres, and the Shape of Book 1

Trevor Luke (Florida State University)
Caligula cites Vergil

Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia)
Lucan’s Erictho and Tacitus’ Locusta: from History: to Epic, from Epic to Historiography

T. Stover (Florida State University)
Chaos and Cosmos in Silius Punica 6: Regulus at the Bagrada River

Molly Pasco-Pranger (The University of Mississippi)
Sulpicia’s History and the sapientia pacis: defending Philosophers in a Time of Peace