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9780199554188

Musa Pedestris Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse

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    9780199554188

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    0199554188

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-02-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

A characteristic of Greek and Latin poetry (sometimes an intimidating one) is the variety of metrical shapes it can adopt. Llewelyn Morgan offers an accessible account of some of the most common of these metres in Roman poetry, and explains how the poets

Author Biography


Llewelyn Morgan is University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature, Oxford University and a Fellow of Brasenose College

Table of Contents

Introduction: the iconography of metre
The hendecasyllable: an abbreviated history
Iambics: the short and the long of it
`Narrower circuits': the sapphic stanza
The dactylic hexameter and its detractors
Conclusion
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