Latin Poets and Italian Gods

by Elaine Fantham

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:148752613X

ISBN13:9781487526139

Release Date:August 2020

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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