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Claudian the Poet
Clare Coombe
出版Cambridge University Press, 2018-03-22
主題History / Ancient / GeneralLiterary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / Ancient & Classical
ISBN11070583419781107058347
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o45LDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Poet and his Poems -- Claudian -- Claudian's Audience -- Stilicho -- Stilicho and the Barbarians -- Poet and Patron -- Genre -- Purpose and Method -- The Mythological Focus -- Levels of Reality -- Levels of Reality and Political Propaganda -- Propaganda and Performance -- 1 In Rufinum: Heroes, Monsters, and the Universe in the Balance -- Introduction -- Python-Apollo: The Lens of the Preface -- Rufinus the Monster: Python -- Rufinus the Monster: Child of the Furies -- Vice and Virtue: The Furies and Iustitia -- Rufinus' Fate -- Stilicho the Hero -- Stilicho and Mars -- The Universe and its Harmonized Elements -- Boundary Breakdown -- Rufinus' Rule of Chaos -- Boundary Restoration -- Conclusion -- 2 The Universe Ready to be Destabilized (IV Cons., Stil., Rapt., Epith.) -- Introduction -- Harmony and Harmonizers: Amor (IV Cons.) -- Harmony and Harmonizers: Clementia (Stil. 2) -- Harmony and Harmonizers: Natura (Rapt.) -- Places of Harmony: Cave of Time (Stil. 2) -- Garden of Venus (Epith.) -- Conclusion -- 3 Monsters Ready to Destabilize the Universe (c.m. 53, Gig. Gr., Rapt., Eut., VI Cons., Get.) -- Introduction -- The Theme of Gigantomachy -- The Background to Claudian's Giants from the Gigantomachia -- Terra and the Giants (c.m. 53) -- Boundary Breakdown (c.m. 53) -- Familiar and Other (c.m. 53) -- Parallels in Claudian's Greek Gigantomachia (Gig. Gr.) -- The Giant as Epitome of Recurrent Chaos (Rapt.) -- The Monster and Social Reality -- Monster Time and Contemporizing the Gigantomachy (c.m. 53, Eut.) -- Claudian's Giants as Political Figures: VI Cons. and Performing a Gigantomachy (VI Cons., Rapt.) -- Eridanus and Alaric the Giant (VI Cons.) -- The Magnitude of the Threat (Get.) -- A Giant's Fury (Get.) -- Conclusion