商品簡介
In a revision of her dissertation (from Princeton in 1999), Volk sets out to redeem the neglected genre of didactic poetry by exploring the theory of poetics found in five such texts: Lucretius' De rerum natura , Virgil's Georgics , Ovid's Ars amatoria , and Remedia amoris , and Manilius' Astronomica . A discussion of the history of the didactic genre and the essential qualities of the didactic poem precede the close reading of the five poems. Volk provides English translation of the longer passages along with the original Latin. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Katharina Volk is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, Bucknell University
