Name: Latin Poets and Italian Gods
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Author: Fantham, Elaine
ISBN: 9781442640597

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Author

Elaine Fantham

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN

9781442640597

ISBN13

9781442640597

Synopsis "Latin Poets and Italian Gods"

Based on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter, Mars, and Juno. However, real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who supplied healing waters, the great Tiber river and other lesser rivers, the lusty garden god Priapus, and more.Latin Poets and Italian Gods surveys the representation of these old country gods in poets from Plautus to Statius. Fantham offers historical and epigraphic evidence of worship offered to these colourful lesser spirits and reveals the emotional importance of local Italian deities to the sophisticated poets of the Augustan age.

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