{"product_id":"creative-imitation-and-latin-literature-9780521036399","title":"Creative Imitation and Latin Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writers of Greece and Rome regularly imitated and alluded to the great authors of the past. Such imitations were not considered plagiarism, but as essential to the creation of a new work. Here the contributors analyse selected passages of Greek, Latin and English authors and illustrate how they created new works of art by imitating earlier passages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue; 1. De imitatione D. A. Russell; 2. Plavtvs vortit barbare: Plautus, Bacchides 526–61 and Menander, Dis exapaton 102–12 David Bain; 3. From Polyphemus to Corydon: Virgil, Eclogue 2 and the Idylls of Theocritus Ian M. Lem. Du Quesnay; 4. Two plagues: Virgil, Georgics 3.478–566 and Lucretius 6.1090–1286 David West; 5. Horatian imitatio and odes 2.5 C. W. Macleod; 6. Ivdicivm transferendi: Virgil, Aeneid and 2.469–505 and its antecedents E. J. Kenney; 7. Self-imitation within a generic framework: Ovid, Amores 2.9 and 3.11 and the renuntiatio amoris Francis Cairns; 8. Self-imitation and the substance of history: Tacitus, Annals 1.61–5 and Histories 2.70, 5.14–15 Tony Woodman; 9. Lente cvrrite, noctis eqvi: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde 3.1422–70, Donne, The Sun Rising and Ovid, Amores 1.13 K. W. Gransden; 10. Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Metamorphoses 4.1–166 Niall Rudd; 11. Epilogue; Notes; Abbreviations and bibliography; Select indexes.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767577084247,"sku":"9780521036399","price":29.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creative-imitation-and-latin-literature-9780521036399","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}