... Lycomedes Ulysses war Aeneas Calchas Thetis Capaneus Compression condensation Eteocles Hannibal Hippomedon Parthenopaeus Polynices Tydeus metapoetics Achilleid Statius epic tragedy The title of this conclusion borrows Hardie’s label of imperial epics that followed and expanded upon the use...

... section discusses Homeric nods, paradigms, plot, and metapoetics. glory kleos honor timē Achilles deception mortality Odysseus pity warrior’s status Ajax fate Homeric nods exempla paradigms and or para–narratives deception fate friendship glory Homeric nods honor metapoetics paradigms...

... Cornelius Scipio Livia Portico of Porticus Liviae Rome Temple of Peace Templum Pacis Rome Petrarch Petrarca Francesco Statius Domitian Hasdrubal intertextuality metapoetics Livy Varro Marcus Terentius Varro appropriation Lavardin Hildebert de Serlio Sebastiano Posthumus Herman Pythagoras Ovid...

... Hesiod Theogony aporia metaphor metapoetics intertextuality praise kingship In the preceding chapter I discussed ways in which Kallimachos’ first hymn articulates kingly prerogatives and argued that the reworking of the Theogony’s “Kings and Singers” passage emphasizes...

... Quintus Horatius Flaccus Jupiter Salii ephemerality fragility Novius Vindex Statius Silvae construction building aesthetics panegyric speed sound Callimachus metapoetics In Chapters 1 and 2 , I considered how representations of the making of a monument alter the impact of the completed...

... mythology death Lock of Berenice Callimachus Sappho literary criticism poetics metapoetics style ...

... incorporating metapoetic reflection in their work. Seneca is no different, and sections from the Agamemnon (Cassandra’s speeches) and Oedipus (necromancy) offer paradigmatic moments of “writing” and “reading” in Senecan tragedy. These examples of Senecan...

... gender imprisonment sex Castlereagh Lord religion Achilles authority Petrarch Plato Rogers Samuel Lord Byron Orientalism power excess eroticism war consumption metapoetics The ‘Ottoman cantos’ are central to Don Juan in several ways. They are situated between...

... abies fir quercus an oak Cumae forests metapoetics fraxinus ash ilex holm oak ornus manna ash picea pitch pine pinus pine robur an oak sometimes Catullus tools animism tree-felling metapoetics Ennius numen cultivation As I hope to have illustrated throughout this book, Vergil’s...

... to the barbarian breach of the Rhine in 406/7 with a diagnosis of Gaul’s moral and religious condition. Interpretation of the poem connects its allegorical, metapoetic, and genre-bending features to the conflicts of identity and ideology that aristocratic readers faced under the pressures of Christianization...

... associations of Ulysses with violence in a number of similes in the narrative. The chapter then moves on to an arresting and gender-bending equivalence of Ulysses as a metapoetic force of furor, akin to well-known Furies in the literary tradition, offering novel reflections on gender...

... traditions Aeacus magnanimus Muse Calliope Erato Ilias Latina Valerius Flaccus Maternal Glaucus Diomedes Dirce nefas Lament Crenaeus and his mother Hippomedon Ismenis Atalanta Calchas vates prophets Thetis visions Sybil metapoetics maternal epic lament literary tradition...

... modeliruiushchaia sistema,” 11–50, and “Literatura kak okhrannaia gramota,” 50–156. 15   Segal, Literatura kak okhrannaia gramota , 68. Segal defined his “metapoetics” as a general feature of the “specifically Russian tradition of literary modelling” (pp. 52–53). 16   Michael Finke...

... at which an encounter with such alterity might be disclosed, readers experience both conceptual possibilities and a fresh recognition of the limits of their subjectivity. Although they are obviously not entirely distinct from each other, these metapoetic, affective, and speculative readings involve...

... . . . ? 17 of the Iliad has been debated and used to defend all sorts of propositions about Homeric (proto)theology, causation, metapoetics, and more.36 Yet looking at vases may suggest another layer of signi cance to the paradox, encouraging us to think about how narrative coherence interacts with spatial...