TY - BOOK ID - 78373247 TI - Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry AU - Ash, Rhiannon AU - Bexley, Erica AU - Connolly, Joy AU - Davis, Gregson AU - Davis, Peter J AU - Dressler, Alex AU - Fitch, John G AU - Fontaine, Michael AU - Gowers, Emily AU - Katz, Joshua T AU - Konstan, David AU - Leigh, Matthew AU - Lowrie, Michele AU - Malamud, Martha AU - McGowan, Matthew M AU - Mitsis, Phillip AU - Paschalis, Michael AU - Pomeroy, Arthur J AU - Reed, Jay AU - Ziogas, Ioannis AU - Hanses, Mathias AU - Putnam, Michael C J PY - 2016 SN - 3110474174 3110475871 9783110475876 9783110475883 311047588X 9783110474176 9783110472523 311047252X PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Latin poetry KW - Latin poetry. KW - Latin literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Latin poetry - History and criticism - Congresses KW - Power (Social sciences) in literature - Congresses KW - Politics in literature - Congresses KW - Authorial construction. KW - Roman poetry. KW - reception. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78373247 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 -