T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome

by Evangelos Karakasis

Book Overview

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius' pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurnius' epigonal and generically transcending poetics and meta-poetics through a thorough comparative analysis of the generic interfaces between the bucolic host genre (as bequeathed to Siculus from Theocritus to Vergil) and various generic modes which operate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110611716
• ISBN13: 9783110611717
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary