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Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry

Contributors

P. Mitsis
Editor

Abstract

The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretation from themselves to their readers. By the same token, it is often difficult to assess their authorial powerplays in the etymologies, puns, anagrams, telestichs, and acronyms that feature prominently in their poetry. It is the premise of this volume that the contexts of composition, performance, and reception play a critical role in constructing poetic voices as either politically favorable or dissenting, and however much the individual scholars in this volume disagree among themselves, their readings try to do justice collectively to poetry’s power to shape political realities. The book is aimed not only at scholars of Roman poetry, politics, and philosophy, but also at those working in later literary and political traditions influenced by Rome's greatest poets.

Citation

Ziogas, I., & Mitsis, P. (Eds.). (2016). Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110475876

Book Type Edited Book
Online Publication Date Jul 1, 2016
Publication Date 2016-07
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2016
Publisher De Gruyter
Series Title Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, Volume 36
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110475876
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1130204
Contract Date Jul 5, 2015