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Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary

By: Boris Kayachev

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Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary

By: Boris Kayachev

The Dirae is a curse uttered, in bucolic hexameters, by an Italian farmer against his former estate confiscated to enable the settlement of Caesarian veterans in the aftermath of the battle of Philippi: this commentary is the first work, in eighty years, to offer a systematic exploration of the poem within the literary and historical context of the Late Republic. At the heart of the volume is a freshly edited Latin text, based on a thorough reappraisal of manuscript evidence and earlier textual scholarship, which in particular aims to restore the poems stanzaic organisation, gravely distorted in the course of transmission. Besides providing an account of the manuscripts and an overview of the poems structure and contents, the introduction discusses at length the Diraes engagement with other poetic texts and traditions, first of all with its sibling the Lydia, but also, crucially, with Greek bucolic, before considering its reception in Virgils Eclogues and later Augustan poetry; it sheds new light too on the Diraes links with Hellenistic curse poetry and with the ritual tradition of inscribed curses. Endorsing a composition period shortly after the poems dramatic date (springsummer of 41 BC) and tentatively reviving the old attribution to Valerius Cato, the introduction also explores the Diraes engagement with the political events and narratives of one of the most dramatic moments of Roman history. The line-by-line commentary provides exegesis of the poems textual, linguistic, literary and historical aspects, with the English translation offering a further point of orientation.

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Classical Press of Wales

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Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris

By: Boris Kayachev

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Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris

By: Boris Kayachev

The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message. Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris

By: Boris Kayachev

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Studies in the >Ciris

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Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary

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The Communist Postscript

By: Boris Groys

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The Communist Postscript

By: Boris Groys

Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution.

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Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Allusion and Allegory

Allusion and Allegory

Allusion and Allegory

Allusion and Allegory

Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Dirae - A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

The Communist Postscript

The Communist Postscript

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