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Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the...

John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets.This volume includes Virgil's text and Conington's commentary on Books X-XII, along with Conington's index to Books VII-XII.

Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

Introduces Virgil's three major works and a surveys the changing critical approaches to them.

Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope.

Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major study touches on the whole of Ovid's output, from the Amores to the exile poetry, and is an overarching treatment of illusionism and the textual conjuring of presence in the corpus. Modern critical and theoretical approaches, accompanied by close readings of individual passages, examine the...

Discusses the reception of Lucretius' important and influential scientific poem on poets from Virgil and Horace to Milton.

Wide-ranging study by leading experts focusing on the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid and the responses they provoked.

This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility...