The paper concerns a passage of Virgil's Georgics which seems to allude in a less than reverent way to the prophecy about the entrance of the wooden horse into Troy uttered in a famous scene of Ennius'tragedy, the Alexander. It is argued that the skill of a tragic poet and his actors and dancers in making plausible a factually untrue story was in Antiquity admired at least as much as any doctrine about humanity, its place in the world and its obligations which his tragedy may have presented ; that Virgil's desire to convey accurate and useful information about matters of practical importance with as much dignity and charm as the old epic and tragic poets had displayed in dressing up their falsehoods brought problems, particularly where the ...
Science has studied ancient litterateur and poetry for a long time. This paper has chosen to turn it...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ancient system of rhetoric and its influence on Vir...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Bloomsbury
The paper concerns a passage of Virgil's Georgics which seems to allude in a less than reverent way ...
There is a clear link between Virgil’s Ecl. 1 and the ending of the Georgics, suggested by the quota...
The aim of the author is to study the Poetics of enargeia (the quality of "evidence") in latin epics...
This paper intends to investigate to what extent the attention of the ancient commentators to the an...
International audienceTextual fragments from the Georgics and the Aeneid are woven into Catalepton X...
In this paper we attempt to show that the prologue of the first book of the Georgics, in which a ser...
This paper will try to support the thesis that Virgil read in Theocritus' so-called bucolic poems th...
ABSTRACT This dissertation consists of two closely related cases studies, exploring temple ecphrases...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
Virgil’s poetry has long been recognised as delving into a poetics of comparison which employs sudde...
Commenting on Propaganda: Virgilian Engagement in Servius’ Commentaries. An epic set in the distant ...
In this article I identify a major function of allusion to the Georgics in Vergil's later poem the A...
Science has studied ancient litterateur and poetry for a long time. This paper has chosen to turn it...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ancient system of rhetoric and its influence on Vir...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Bloomsbury
The paper concerns a passage of Virgil's Georgics which seems to allude in a less than reverent way ...
There is a clear link between Virgil’s Ecl. 1 and the ending of the Georgics, suggested by the quota...
The aim of the author is to study the Poetics of enargeia (the quality of "evidence") in latin epics...
This paper intends to investigate to what extent the attention of the ancient commentators to the an...
International audienceTextual fragments from the Georgics and the Aeneid are woven into Catalepton X...
In this paper we attempt to show that the prologue of the first book of the Georgics, in which a ser...
This paper will try to support the thesis that Virgil read in Theocritus' so-called bucolic poems th...
ABSTRACT This dissertation consists of two closely related cases studies, exploring temple ecphrases...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
Virgil’s poetry has long been recognised as delving into a poetics of comparison which employs sudde...
Commenting on Propaganda: Virgilian Engagement in Servius’ Commentaries. An epic set in the distant ...
In this article I identify a major function of allusion to the Georgics in Vergil's later poem the A...
Science has studied ancient litterateur and poetry for a long time. This paper has chosen to turn it...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ancient system of rhetoric and its influence on Vir...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Bloomsbury