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Fantham, Elaine

LATIN POETS AND ITALIAN GODS Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

University of Toronto Press, 2009

42,00 €

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(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
2009
ISBN
1442640596
Autore
Fantham, Elaine
Editori
University of Toronto Press
Soggetto
Gods Myth And Mythology Paganism Latin Literature Poetry & Poets, Classical Greek & Roman
Descrizione
Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
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Hardcover ISBN 1442640596

Descrizione

Large closed tear to back panel of DJ (8cm). Now protected in mylar sleeve. Bottom corners slightly bumped. ; The Robson Classical Lectures; 256 pages; Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter, Mars, and Juno. However, real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who supplied healing waters, the great Tiber river and other lesser rivers, the lusty garden god Priapus, and more. Latin Poets and Italian Gods surveys the representation of these old country gods in poets from Plautus to Statius. Fantham offers historical and epigraphic evidence of worship offered to these colourful lesser spirits and reveals the emotional importance of local Italian deities to the sophisticated poets of the Augustan age.