Tombs of the Ancient Poets
Between Literary Reception and Material Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 October 2018
- ISBN 9780198826477
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 224x148x28 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Drawing together a range of examples, this volume explores the tombs of the ancient poets - real or otherwise - in the ancient cultural imagination, and the ways in which they act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry, uniquely positioned as they are between literary reception and material culture.
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Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the study of literary reception by focusing on the materiality of the body and the tomb, and the ways in which they mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. From the tomb of the boy poet Quintus Sulpicius Maximus, which preserves his prize-winning poetry carved on the tombstone itself, to the modern votive offerings left at the so-called 'Tomb of Virgil'; from the doomed tomb-hunting of long-lost poets' graves, to the 'graveyard of the imagination' constructed in Hellenistic poetry collections, the essays collected here explore the position of ancient poets' tombs in the cultural imagination and demonstrate the rich variety of ways in which they exemplify an essential mode of the reception of ancient poetry, poised as they are between literary reception and material culture.
Tombs of the Ancient Poets is a balanced and exceptionally accomplished publication, which will serve not only researchers dealing with antiquity but also those interested in the broader topics of "cultural saints" and the literary tradition and its spatiality.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Material Texts, Textual Materials
Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece
Simonides on Tombs, and the 'Tomb of Simonides'
Ennius' imago between Tomb and Text
A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: The Tomb of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus on the Via Salaria
Ovid's Tombs: Afterlives of a Poetic corpus
Part II: The Poet as Character
Earth, Nature, and the Cult of the Tomb: The Posthumous Reception of Aeschylus' heros
Tombs of the Poets' Minor Characters
Still Singing: The Case of Orpheus
Part III: Collecting Tombs
Poets' Corners in Greek Epigram Collections
Impermanent Stones, Permanent Plants: Tombs of Poets as Material Objects in the Palatine Anthology
Pausanias' Dead Poets Society
Part IV: The Tomb of Virgil
Dead Letters and Buried Meaning: Approaching the Tomb of Virgil
The Tomb of Virgil between Text, Memory, and Site
Virgil's Tomb in Scholarly and Popular Culture
Ruins and Reputations: The Tomb of the Poet in Visual Art
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
