In
Ilias Latina. Text, Interpretation, and Reception, the contributors approach this short poem, whose appeal and importance have not been sufficiently appreciated, from a multitude of scholarly perspectives. The challenging synthesis of the different issues shows that both a new edition and a modern literary interpretation of the poem are needed. Particularly focusing in various ways on the technique of
vertere, the papers concern four main issues: the different elements of the narration, such as macro- and microstructure, single
Bauformen and motifs, characters and scenes; the intertextual allusions to Homer and the texts of the Roman poetic tradition; the literary genre, the explicitly metaliterary passages and the implicit narrative and poetic choices; the medieval reception of the
Ilias Latina.
Maria Jennifer Falcone (Università di Pavia-Cremona) is currently Ricercatrice in Latin Language and Literature. She has published a monograph on Medea in the tragedy of the Republican period and many articles mainly focusing on Latin poetry.
Christoph Schubert holds the chair of Classical Philology (Latin Studies) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research areas are the poetry of the first century C.E. and the Christian literature of late antiquity.
Contributors are: Giuseppe Aricò, Anton Bierl, Caterina Carpinato, Massimo Cè, Frédéric Duplessis, Maria Jennifer Falcone, Michele C. Ferrari, Luigi Galasso, Edoardo Galfré, Thomas Gärtner, Steven J. Green, Fabian Horn, Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Christiane Reitz, Judith Rohman, Christoph Schubert, Katrin Schürmann, Georgina White
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Introduction Maria Jennifer Falcone and Christoph Schubert
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Zur Struktur und Erzähltechnik der Ilias Latina Giuseppe Aricò
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The Ilias Latina in the Context of Ancient Epitome Translation Massimo Cè
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Bauform in der Kürze: Zum Umgang mit epischen Strukturen in der Ilias Latina Christiane Reitz
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Die „Schlachtenbücher“ in der Ilias Latina: Beobachtungen zu Gefallenen und Todesdarstellung Fabian Horn
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Narrative Strategien der lysis in ausgewählten Szenen von Ilias 24 und die Umsetzung in der Ilias Latina: Aufschub im Monumentalen und Hervorhebung der archaischen anthropologischen Grunderfahrung im Leid vs. Ilias light mit römischem Anstrich Anton Bierl
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Homer without the Calories: Eating and Drinking in the Ilias Latina Georgina White
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Homer als Hintergrundtext für die Ilias Latina (!?) Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich
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Die Ilias nach Vergil: Zur Charakterisierung trojanischer Helden in der Ilias Latina Maria Jennifer Falcone
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Baebius’ Ovid Luigi Galasso
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About Some Narrative and Discursive Devices in the Ilias Latina Judith Rohman
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Die poetologische Bedeutung der Sphragis der Ilias Latina Katrin Schürmann
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Die Akrosticha der Ilias Latina und ihre poetologische Bedeutung Christoph Schubert
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Fighting Over Women at Troy: Roman Sexual Aggression in the Ilias Latina Steven J. Green
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The Gesta Berengarii imperatoris: Witness of the Ilias Latina Revival in the 10th Century Frédéric Duplessis
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Die Ilias Latina in elegischer Form: Zur Rezeption in der Centonendichtung Troilus des Albert von Stade Thomas Gärtner
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Der Menschen Mühsal und der Götter Ruh’: Eine mittelalterliche Ilias latina Michele C. Ferrari
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Die Rückkehr des Achilleus nach Griechenland (2): Ilias latina, Roman de Troie und Πόλεμος της Τρωάδος Caterina Carpinato
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Gesamtbibliographie zur Ilias Latina Edoardo Galfré
Index
All interested in Latin epics and poetry, in the reception of Homer, in textual criticism, and in Neronian literature.