Creative Imitation and Latin Literature Book

Prologue;

1. De imitatione D. A. Russell;
2. Plavtvs vortit barbare: Plautus, Bacchides 526-61 and Menander, Dis exapaton 102-12 David Bain;
3. From Polyphemus to Corydon: Virgil, Eclogue 2 and the Idylls of Theocritus Ian M. Lem. Du Quesnay;
4. Two plagues: Virgil, Georgics 3.478-566 and Lucretius 6.1090-1286 David West;
5. Horatian imitatio and odes 2.5 C. W. Macleod;
6. Ivdicivm transferendi: Virgil, Aeneid and 2.469-505 and its antecedents E. J. Kenney;
7. Self-imitation within a generic framework: Ovid, Amores 2.9 and 3.11 and the renuntiatio amoris Francis Cairns;
8. Self-imitation and the substance of history: Tacitus, Annals 1.61-5 and Histories 2.70, 5.14-15 Tony Woodman;
9. Lente cvrrite, noctis eqvi: Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde 3.1422-70, Donne, The Sun Rising and Ovid, Amores 1.13 K. W. Gransden;
10. Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare and Ovid: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Metamorphoses 4.1-166 Niall Rudd;
11. Epilogue; Notes; Abbreviations and bibliography; Select indexes.