Ilias Latina Text, Interpretation, and Reception

By and Christoph Schubert, Edited by Maria Jennifer Falcone, Università di Pavia-Cremona

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004469494
• ISBN13: 9789004469495
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"