Latin poets and Italian gods / Elaine Fantham.
Series: Robson classical lecturesPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442685802
- 1442685808
- Latin poetry -- History and criticism
- Gods, Roman, in literature
- Goddesses, Roman, in literature
- Rome -- Religion
- Goddesses, Roman, in literature
- Gods, Roman, in literature
- Latin poetry -- History and criticism
- Rome -- Religion
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical
- POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Goddesses, Roman, in literature
- Gods, Roman, in literature
- Latin poetry
- Religion
- Rome (Empire)
- Poésie latine -- Histoire et critique
- Dieux romains dans la littérature
- Déesses romaines dans la littérature
- Rome -- Religion
- Kult Motiv
- Landwirtschaft Motiv
- Latein
- Literatur
- Religion Motiv
- divinités italiotes -- poésie latine -- 1er s. av. J.-C. -- époque d'Auguste
- Latein
- Latinsk poesi -- historia
- Romerska gudar i litteraturen
- Mytologi i litteraturen
- 871/.01093820211
- PA6029.R4 F36 2009eb
- 6,12
- FT 92000
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and indexes.
pt. I Honouring the Italian Gods -- 1 Rustica Numina: The Country Gods of Italy and Their Reception in Roman Poetry -- 2 Virgil's Gods of the Land -- 3 Ovid's Fasti and the Local Gods of the City -- pt. II Counter-Examples, and the Triumph of Artistry over Fading Devotion -- 4 Ovidian Variations: From Friendly Flora to Lewd Salmacis and Angry Achelous -- 5 Gods in a Man-made Landscape: Priapus -- 6 Gods in Statian Settings.
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.
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