Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Greek versions
- 2 Catullus 64: Variants and the virtues of heroes
- 3 Death, inconsistency, and the Epicurean poet
- 4 Voices, variants, and inconsistency in the Aeneid
- 5 Inconsistency and authority in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 6 Postscript: Lucan's Bellum Civile and the inconsistent Roman epic
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Greek versions
- 2 Catullus 64: Variants and the virtues of heroes
- 3 Death, inconsistency, and the Epicurean poet
- 4 Voices, variants, and inconsistency in the Aeneid
- 5 Inconsistency and authority in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 6 Postscript: Lucan's Bellum Civile and the inconsistent Roman epic
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
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- Inconsistency in Roman EpicStudies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan, pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007