Synopses & Reviews
This volume presents a wide range of pieces from a world-class Latinist which displays both his diverse interests as a scholar and his consistent concern with Augustan texts, their language and literary texture. The range of articles, written over more than three decades and including one previously unpublished piece, covers the same connected territory - largely Virgil, Horace, and elegy. R. O. A. M. Lyne's consistent approach of close reading means that the articles form a coherent whole, while his compelling style as an engaged literary analyst ensures that these are not dry or forbidding pieces.
Review
"[An] impressive oeuvre.... The volume as a whole is a fitting tribute to an outstanding Latinist.... We are all in the debt of those students and colleagues for making this volume possible; it will be a resource for Latinists for years to come."--Denis Feeney, The Classical Review
About the Author
The late R. O. A. M. Lyne was Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.
Table of Contents
Introduction,
Gregory Hutchinson1. Propertius and Cynthia. Elegy I.3
2. Critical Appreciations. I. Propertius III.10
3. Propertius I.5
4. Scilicet et tempus veniet ... Virgil, Georgics I.463-514
5. The Neoteric Poets
6. Seruitium amoris
7. Introduction to Virgil: The Eclogues, the Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis
8. Virgil and the Politics of War
9. Lavinia's Blush: Virgil, Aeneid 12.64-70
10. Ovid's Metamorphoses, Callimachus, and l'art pour l'art
11. Virgil's Aeneid: Subversion by Intertextuality
12. Introductory Poems in Propertius: 1.1 and 2.12
13. Love and Death: Laodamia and Protesilaus in Catullus, Propertius, and Others
14. Propertius 2.10 and 11 and the Structure of Books `2A' and `2B'
15. Propertius and Tibullus: Early Exchanges
16. Notes on Catullus
17. Horace, Odes, Book I and the Alexandrian Edition of Alcaeus
18. Structure and Allusion in Horace's Book of Epodes
19. [Tibullus] Book III and Sulpicia