Latin Poets and Italian Gods 1st Edition by Elaine Fantham 1442640596 9781442640597
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ISBN 10: 1442640596
ISBN 13: 9781442640597
Author: Elaine Fantham
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.
Table of contents:
Pt. I. Honouring the Italian Gods
Rustica Numina: The Country Gods of Italy and Their Reception in Roman Poetry
Virgil’s Gods of the Land
Ovid’s Fasti and the Local Gods of the City
Pt. II. Counter-Examples, and the Triumph of Artistry Over Fading Devotion
Ovidian Variations: From Friendly Flora to Lewd Salmacis and Angry Acheloüs
Gods in a Man-Made Landscape: Priapus
Gods in Statian Settings
Elaine Fantham.
Includes indexes.
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