Contents

• Preface

• List of Original Places of Publication

• Part A: Late Republican Poetry

  • 1 Ennius and the Prologue to Lucretius, DRN 1 (1.1-148)

    • 1.1 Literary programme: emphasising Ennius

    • 1.2 The tragic touch: the Ennian Iphigenia?

    • 1.3 The structure of the proem

      • 1.3.1 Order from chaos?

      • 1.3.2 Programmatic effects: Epicurus outdoes Ennius?

    • 1.4 Conclusion

      • [Additional note, July 2002]

  • 2 Issues of Unity in Catullus 2 and Catullus 51

    • 2.1 Catullus 2 and 2b

    • 2.2 Catullus 51

  • 3 Altering Attis: Ethnicity, Gender and Genre in Catullus 63

    • 3.1 Ethnicity: The Eastern and the Western Attis

    • 3.2 Gender: Attis as Agave, Attis as Medea

    • 3.3 Genre: Literary affinities of Catullus 63

    • 3.4 Conclusion

  • 4 Catullus 1: Book and Boy?

    • 4.1 Introduction

    • 4.2 Book and boy

    • 4.3 Nepos as mentor

    • 4.4 Conclusion

  • 5 Catullus 4: Greek Epigram and Miniaturised Greek Epic

    • 5.1 Introduction: the neoteric poets and their Greek heritage

    • 5.2 Text

    • 5.3 Textual and metrical issues

    • 5.4 Literary form: epigrammatic traces

    • 5.5 Literary history and topography: Catullus' mini-Argo

    • 5.6 The size of the phaselus: physical and poetic aspects

      • 5.6.1 Physical size and representation

      • 5.6.2 Poetic size and genre

    • 5.7 Conclusion

• Part B: Augustan Poetry

  • 6 The Primal Voyage and the Ocean of Epos: Two Aspects of Metapoetic Imagery in Catullus, Vergil and Horace

    • 6.1 Introduction

    • 6.2 Poetic waters: a key Hellenistic text

    • 6.3 Catullus 64 and the Argo: the primal epic voyage

    • 6.4 The Georgics: the didactic voyage and an epic encounter

    • 6.5 The Aeneid: epic voyages

    • 6.6 Horace's Odes: how far can you go?

    • 6.7 Conclusion

  • 7 Prophetic, Poetic and Political Ambiguity in Vergil, Eclogue 4

    • 7.1 Introduction

    • 7.2 Eclogue 4: contexts

    • 7.3 Possible ambiguities in the poem

      • 7.3.1 Sicily and the consulship

      • 7.3.2 Great ancestry and divine destiny

      • 7.3.3 Historic deeds

      • 7.3.4 Heroic expeditions

      • 7.3.5 Divine links and future distinguished career

      • 7.4 Conclusion

  • 8 Vergil and Sibylline Prophecy: Generic Multiplicity in the Aeneid

    • 8.1 Introduction

    • 8.2 Sibylline prophecy: the Greek tradition from Greece to Rome

    • 8.3 'Sibylline' features in Eclogue 4

    • 8.4 The Sibyl's own prophecy (Aeneid 6.83-95)

    • 8.5 Jupiter's prophecy to Venus (Aeneid 1.261-96)

    • 8.6 Anchises' prophecy (Aeneid 6.756-859)

    • 8.7 Conclusion

  • 9 Force, Frequency and Focalisation: The Function of Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil, Aeneid 10

    • 9.1 Introduction

    • 9.2 Overall narrative structure of Aeneid 10

    • 9.3 Strategies of variation

    • 9.4 Catalogue of similes

    • 9.5 Distribution of similes between scenes

    • 9.6 Some individual similes and their narrative functions

    • 9.7 Conclusion

  • 10 Serial Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Vergil's Aeneid

    • 10.1 Introduction

    • 10.2 Homer, Ennius, Vergil: myth, history and the epic tradition

    • 10.3 Homer, Apollonius and Vergil (1): a trace of civil war?

    • 10.4 Homer, Apollonius and Vergil (2): a road not taken?

    • 10.5 From Homer to Vergil via lyric and sexuality

    • 10.6 Conclusion

  • 11 Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas' Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Vergil, Aeneid 2

    • 11.1 Introduction

    • 11.2 Aeneas as narrator and tragic messenger

    • 11.3 Narrators and narratees

      • 11.3.1 The secondary internal narrator: Aeneas

      • 11.3.2 The primary external poet-narrator

      • 11.3.3 The principal internal narratee: Dido

      • 11.3.4 Other narratees

      • 11.3.5 The primary external narratee: the Augustan and later reader

    • 11.4 Conclusion

  • 12 Vergil's Metapoetic Katabasis: The Underworld of Aeneid 6 and the History of Epic

    • 12.1 Introduction

    • 12.2 The gates of the Underworld (6.273-89): allegories and monsters

    • 12.3 The Lugentes Campi (6.440-547)

    • 12.4 Tartarus (6.580-628)

    • 12.5 Elysium (6.648-68)

    • 12.6 Anchises'...