TY - BOOK ID - 10685825 TI - Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry AU - Mitsis, Philip AU - Ziōgas, Giannēs. PY - 2016 VL - 36 SN - 9783110472523 311047252X 3110474174 3110475871 PB - Berlin De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Latin poetry KW - Power (Social sciences) in literature KW - Politics in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Latin poetry. KW - History and criticism. KW - Authorial construction. KW - Roman poetry. KW - reception. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10685825 AB - The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretation from themselves to their readers. By the same token, it is often difficult to assess their authorial powerplays in the etymologies, puns, anagrams, telestichs, and acronyms that feature prominently in their poetry. It is the premise of this volume that the contexts of composition, performance, and reception play a critical role in constructing poetic voices as either politically favorable or dissenting, and however much the individual scholars in this volume disagree among themselves, their readings try to do justice collectively to poetry’s power to shape political realities. The book is aimed not only at scholars of Roman poetry, politics, and philosophy, but also at those working in later literary and political traditions influenced by Rome's greatest poets. ER -