Tombs of the Ancient Poets Between Literary Reception and Material Culture

by Goldschmidt, Nora; Graziosi, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780191865442
• ISBN10: 0191865443
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-10-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Nora Goldschmidt is Assistant Professor of Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently completing a monograph on fictional biography and the reception of Latin poetry, Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics and Head of Department at Durham University. Her most recent monographs are The Gods of Olympus: A History (Profile Books, 2014) and Homer (Oxford University Press, 2016). She recently completed a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on visual and narrative portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets, entitled Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry. This volume stems from that project.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
0. Introduction, Nora Goldschmidt and Barbara Graziosi
Part I: Material Texts, Textual Materials
1. Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece, Verity Platt
2. Simonides on Tombs, and the 'Tomb of Simonides', Richard Rawles
3. Ennius' imago between Tomb and Text, Francesca Martelli
4. A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: The Tomb of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus on the Via Salaria, Valentina Garulli
5. Ovid's Tombs: Afterlives of a Poetic corpus, Nora Goldschmidt
Part II: The Poet as Character
6. Earth, Nature, and the Cult of the Tomb: The Posthumous Reception of Aeschylus' heros, Emmanuela Bakola
7. Tombs of the Poets' Minor Characters, Peter Bing
8. Still Singing: The Case of Orpheus, Barbara Graziosi
Part III: Collecting Tombs
9. Poets' Corners in Greek Epigram Collections, Regina Hoschele
10. Impermanent Stones, Permanent Plants: Tombs of Poets as Material Objects in the Palatine Anthology, Silvia Montiglio
11. Pausanias' Dead Poets Society, Johanna Hanink
Part IV: The Tomb of Virgil
12. Dead Letters and Buried Meaning: Approaching the Tomb of Virgil, Andrew Laird
13. The Tomb of Virgil between Text, Memory, and Site, Irene Peirano Garrison
14. Virgil's Tomb in Scholarly and Popular Culture, Harald Hendrix
15. Ruins and Reputations: The Tomb of the Poet in Visual Art, Sam Smiles
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index