San Antonio College Library

Traces the development of the Latin tradition from an impersonal poetry to a poetry of sensibility. Includes translations of the poems.

These studies of Latin poetry were commissioned with two main purposes in mind: to encourage a fresh reading of several Latin poets from the time of Catullus to Horace, and to illustrate various, critical approaches to literature.

Repitition in literature is often a matter of fierce debate: What separates creative exchange from plagiarism? In Ovid's Homer, Barbara Weiden Boyd examines the Latin poet's nuanced engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers a detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters to both demonstrate and delineate the pervasive presence of HOmer in Ovid's work. The resulting...

"Devoted to five of Rome's master poets of the late Republican and early Augustan period, the essays in this volume are exercises in practical criticism that greatly increase the accessibility of the poets to the modern reader. The author discusses major individual poems and a few minor poems; in one instance he focuses on the imaginative structure of a complete book of poems by Propertius, and in the final essay on certain themes and ideas that unify...

Scholarly commentaries on Virgil's theme of eternal death and renewal in nature and the world of men.