...This chapter examines the representation of vatic activity in the Argonautica, which offers a metric for gauging Valerius' conception of the function of poetry in the context of Vespasianic Rome. Valerian vates, in contrast to their Lucanian predecessors, employ...

...This article re-examines John Skelton’s “laureate poetics” in the light of his poetic practice. Whereas, over the past twenty years, a consensus has emerged that Skelton’s work is best understood as an attempt to reconcile a poet’s potential roles of court spokesperson and inspired vates...

... Holmes B Long A A Bettini M Ennius Quintus Ennius fari “to say ” often with performative force vates “prophet seer poet” Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso prophecy Sedley D N augures Roman augural priests Festus Livy Titus Livius Varro Marcus Terentius Varro intention Cabisius G Davies H Sykes...

... in the Achilleid. The figure of Calchas as the authorial vates of the composition is under scrutiny, and Thetis’ agency is envisioned as adversarial to Calchas. Important questions about the relationship between prophetic status and the status of the poet himself, between violation...

... than Telemachus as its direct paradigm. The chapter considers how, in his nostalgic katabases, Heaney performed the roles of both pius Aeneas and pius vates, and how these twin functions reached their apotheosis in his posthumously published...

... of scholastic theologians. The chapter ends by surveying the conceptual background to the book’s subject matter: the classical idea of the vates (poet-prophet) and patristic (particularly Augustinian) theories of prophecy and inspired vision. It shows how these concepts were combined...

... frustrations, defend himself, and express his values. We have also become more alert to a recurrent Dryden concern, which often appeared when he addressed other artists, namely the power of art, of particular interest to him because he regarded his role as a public poet in a classical sense, as vates...

...“Amphiaraus, Predestined Prophet, Didactic Vates.” Amphiaraus as prophet embodies the mythological and literary tradition: his self-consciousness about his own destiny seems to represent a metapoetic reflection on a belated poet’s place in the tradition. Despite the iconic symbols...

... Horace Quintus Juvenal Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis puer Quintilian Marcus Fabius schools VIRGIL Augustus curses Golden Age the Iambos and ‘Romanized’ iambus meter vates Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro aetas Allobroges Beatae Insulae vir and viri ENNIUS TACITUS OVID gender contagion ships...

... and vates pave the way for viewing the poet's authority as innate. Whereas the view of the poet as orator regius inevitably implies his dependence on an external source of authority, the title poet laureate allows rather more scope for the reinterpretation...