Classical Constructions: Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean

by S. J. Heyworth (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199218035
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/24/2007
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	8.74(w) x 5.73(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

S. J. Harrison is Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Wadham College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Laocoon's point of view, Don Fowler2. Phillip Mitsis, Death and the Epicurean3. Bicycles, centaurs, and man-faced ox creatures: ontological instability in Flann O'Brien, Lucretius, Empedocles, and Piero di Cosimo, Gordon Campbell4. Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius, Alessandro Schiesaro5. Making an exemplum of yourself: Cicero and Augustus, Michele Lowrie6. ‘Natura barratur': Tullius Laurea's elegy for Cicero (Pliny, HN 31.8), Llewelyn Morgan7. Contrasts, Philip Hardie8. Horace's body, Horace's books, Joseph Farrell9. Ovid among the conspiracy theorists, Stephen Hinds10. ‘Haec tum Roma fuit': past, present, and closure in the Punica, Ben Tipping11. Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa, Matthew Leigh12. Translating antiquity: archaism, anachronism, intertextuality, Deborah Roberts13. Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure, Andrew Laird14. From man to book: the close of Tacitus' Agricola, Stephen Harrison