Latin Poets and Italian Gods

by Elaine Fantham

Book Overview

Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter, Mars, and Juno. However, real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who supplied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148752613X
• ISBN13: 9781487526139
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"