Classical constructions : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean

by: Heyworth, S.J. Fowler, P.G. Harrison, S.J.

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 Classical Constructions
Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean
Edited by S. J. Heyworth
Wide-ranging mix of topics - through classics to modern philosophy, art history, and cultural studies - will expand the horizons of any reader
Ground-breaking scholarship combined with an engaging, informal style

Description
Classical Constructions is a collection of ground-breaking and scholarly papers on Latin literature by a number of distinguished Classicists, produced in memory of Don Fowler, who died in 1999 at the age of 46. The authors were all inspired by the desire to commemorate a beloved colleague and friend and have produced papers of great freshness and insight. The essays, including that by Don Fowler himself, are much concerned with the reception of the classical world, extending into the realms of modern philosophy, art history, and cultural studies. There are fundamental studies of Horace's style and Ovid's exile. The volume is unusual in the informality of the style of a number of pieces, and the openness with which the contributors have reminisced about the honorand and reflected on his early death.

Table of Contents
1:Laocoon's point of view, Don Fowler
2:Phillip Mitsis, Death and the Epicurean
3:Bicycles, centaurs, and man-faced ox creatures: ontological instability in Flann O'Brien, Lucretius, Empedocles, and Piero di Cosimo, Gordon Campbell
4:Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius, Alessandro Schiesaro
5:Making an exemplum of yourself: Cicero and Augustus, Michele Lowrie
6:`Natura barratur': Tullius Laurea's elegy for Cicero (Pliny, HN 31.8), Llewelyn Morgan
7:Contrasts, Philip Hardie
8:Horace's body, Horace's books, Joseph Farrell
9:Ovid among the conspiracy theorists, Stephen Hinds
10:`Haec tum Roma fuit': past, present, and closure in the Punica, Ben Tipping
11:Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa, Matthew Leigh
12:Translating antiquity: archaism, anachronism, intertextuality, Deborah Roberts
13:Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure, Andrew Laird
14:From man to book: the close of Tacitus' Agricola, Stephen Harrison

Classical constructions : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean

by: Heyworth, S.J. Fowler, P.G. Harrison, S.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780199218035 / 978-0-19-921803-5
• ISBN-03: 019921803X / 0-19-921803-X
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

Price: 96,00 EURO

1 copy in stock