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    Valerius Flaccus—Poet of Romance (1938)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Greece and Rome 7 (1938), S. 137-148 
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    ISSN: 0017-3835
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: Archaeology , Classical Studies
    Notes: The period of the Flavian emperors (A.D. 69–96) was distinguished by a notable revival of epic poetry. No fewer than three poets, whose work is extant, flourished contemporaneously—Statius, Valerius, and Silius. It was indeed an age of literary figures, including Martial, Pliny the Younger, Quin-tilian, and Tacitus. Statius and Valerius are interesting as epic poets in that they broke away from the tradition of national and patriotic poetry prescribed for their art from the time of Ennius. Silius, on the other hand, remained true to the convention of Latin epic, and, in an age when the stimulus of national pride was losing its effect on poetry, produced a long poem that lacked originality and inspiration.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500005568
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    Livy and Romance (1942)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Greece and Rome 11 (1942), S. 124-129 
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    ISSN: 0017-3835
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: Archaeology , Classical Studies
    Notes: There are arid patches in Livy, as in most historians, but for these there is ample compensation in passages of brilliant description and characterization.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500007841
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    Seneca the Satirist (1945)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Greece and Rome 14 (1945), S. 64-71 
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    ISSN: 0017-3835
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: Archaeology , Classical Studies
    Notes: The fame of Seneca rests on his work as a philosopher and a writer of tragedies on the Greek model. But he can also lay claim to be a humorist. For in what perhaps was an unguarded moment he wrote an amusing satire on the emperor Claudius with the strange title Apocolocyntosis.The piece is so inconsistent with the high tone of his philosophical writings that it has received from critics almost universal reprobation. Seneca's admirers would be better pleased if his authorship could be questioned. But there is no ground for supposing that the satire is by another pen.It might be thought that the writer who composed the funeral oration on Claudius could not be so base as to switch so quickly from eulogy to satire. But the formality of a graveside encomium need not preclude more honest sentiments when the funeral is over. It may well be that even in the panegyric Seneca had his tongue in his cheek, for Tacitus remarks that when the speaker (it was Nero) referred to the wisdom and foresight of the dead prince no one could refrain from laughter.The title presents a problem, for there is no mention in the satire of the transformation of Claudius into a gourd or pumpkin. This has led some to the view that the work is incomplete. Others hold, with the support of Lewis and Short, that the word for a gourd, cucurbita, was used in the metaphorical sense of ‘fathead’ or ‘blockhead’, like the German Kürbiskopf, and thus it is assumed that the witticism is limited to the title.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500008809
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    Persius—Poet of the Stoics (1939)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    Greece and Rome 8 (1939), S. 172-182 
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    ISSN: 0017-3835
    Source: Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
    Topics: Archaeology , Classical Studies
    Notes: There can be little doubt that the extant remains of Persius form the whole of his writings. In his boyhood he had indulged in the literary exercises of the classroom, and these immature efforts included a tragedy, a book of travels, and some lines on the elder Arria, whose Non dolet1 was an appropriate subject for a young Stoic to commemorate. These experiments had little merit, otherwise they would not have been destroyed on the advice of Cornutus, his friend and teacher and literary executor.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500006380
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