Overview

Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A number of Horsfall's papers, including the important 'Camilla', are translated in this volume for the first time.Stretching from 1971 to 2015, the papers are drawn from his entire output demonstrating his unparalleled ability to connect Roman poetry with history, antiquarianism, and Realien. While showcasing his unique analysis of Virgil, it also highlights Horsfall's work as both a Latinist and a Romanist, illuminating the coherence in his approach. This volume includes many Virgilian papers that have become classics--on Aeneas the colonist, and on the Aeneas-legend, for example. This does not detract from the value of the non-Virgilian papers, many of which--on the collegium poetarum, and on discussions of reading and libraries at Rome, for example--have become standard treatments of their subjects. Throughout all these works there is an astonishing degree of connection, with glimpses in many papers of his other research interests.'Nicholas Horsfall needs to be approached through his short papers, typically fresh, innovative and stimulating, and he has been so productive that nobody can claim to have had a full view of his scholarship. When it comes to placing a literary text in the frames offered by material culture, documents, landscapes, history, and by religious, legal, military and antiquarian studies, he was unrivalled.' Professor Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, New York University.

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Author:   Nicholas Horsfall (formerly Honorary Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 24.00cm , Length: 3.50cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780198863861

ISBN 10:   0198863861
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   27 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations 1: Numanus Remulus: ethnography and propaganda in Aen. 9.598ff. 2: Dido in the light of history 3: Turnus ad portas 4: Virgil's Roman chronography: a reconsideration 5: The collegium poetarum 6: Virgil, history and the Roman tradition 7: Some problems in the Aeneas-legend 8: Doctus sermones utriusque linguae? 9: Virgil, Varro s Imagines and the Forum of Augustus 10: From history to legend: Manlius and the geese 11: Some problems of titulature in Roman literary history 12: Virgil and the conquest of chaos 13: The structure and purpose of Virgil s parade of heroes 14: The Caudine forks: topography and illusion 15: Illusion and reality in Latin topographical writing 16: The Aeneas-legend and the Aeneid 17: Non uiribus aequis: some problems in Virgil s battle-scenes 18: Camilla, or the limits of invention 19: The Uses of Literacy and the Cena Trimalchionis 20: Chloreus' trousers 21: Barbara tegmina crurum 22: Aeneas the colonist 23: Virgil and the illusory footnote 24: Externi duces 25: The Aeneid and the social structures of primitive Italy 26: Virgil and the poetry of explanations 27: Empty shelves on the Palatine 28: Cicero and poetry: the place of prejudice in literary history 29: The prehistory of Latin poetry: some problems of method 30: Rome without spectacles 31: The cultural horizons of the Plebs Romana ( MAAR (1996) 101 118) 32: The geography of the Georgics 33: The unity of Roman Italy: some anomalies 34: The unity of Roman Italy: anomalies in context 35: The legionary as his own historian 36: The Moretum decomposed 37: Fraud as scholarship: the Helen Episode and the Appendix Vergiliana 38: Excudent alii 39: Virgil and the Jews 40: Poets and poetry in Virgil's Underworld 41: Exempla in Virgil's Underworld 42: The poetics of toponymy Nicholas Horsfall, a bibliography Index

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The book can be particularly useful for graduate students in want of an accessible introduction to H.'s work as well as for those seeking a starting point from which to consolidate a strong basis for their understanding of existing Virgilian scholarship, as H. treats many key issues within the field and thoroughly traces the existing scholarship for the issues he discusses. * Chantal van Egdom, ExClass * Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels is a duly solid memorial to the late Nicholas Horsfall ... 145 learned articles constitute the core of his prodigious contribution to Vergiliana. Of those, forty-two are reprinted here, representing a good range across time and topics. * Christopher Whitton, Greece & Rome *

The papers on these topics show prodigious industry in collecting, organizing, sifting and evaluating primary evidence. Horsfall's mind moves this way and that over the material, and there are countless gains on points large and small. * Fiachra Mac Gorain, University College London, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * The book can be particularly useful for graduate students in want of an accessible introduction to H.'s work as well as for those seeking a starting point from which to consolidate a strong basis for their understanding of existing Virgilian scholarship, as H. treats many key issues within the field and thoroughly traces the existing scholarship for the issues he discusses. * Chantal van Egdom, ExClass * Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels is a duly solid memorial to the late Nicholas Horsfall ... 145 learned articles constitute the core of his prodigious contribution to Vergiliana. Of those, forty-two are reprinted here, representing a good range across time and topics. * Christopher Whitton, Greece & Rome *

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Nicholas Horsfall (1946-2019) was formerly Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University.

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