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List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors xi
1 Introduction: Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture Philip Hardie 1
2 Horace's Ars Poetica and the Marvellous Mario Citroni 19
3 Where the Wild Things Are: Locating the Marvellous in Augustan Wall Painting Verity Platt 41
4 Against Nature? Some Augustan Responses to Man-made Marvels Rebecca Armstrong 75
5 Virgil: A Paradoxical Poet? Philip Hardie 95
6 The Question of the Marvellous in the Georgics of Virgil Alain Deremetz 113
7 In Search of the Lost Hercules: Strategies of the Fantastic in the Aeneid Mario Labate 126
8 Thaumatographia, or 'What is a Theme?' Jürgen Paul Schwindt 145
9 Phaethon and the Monsters Alessandro Barchiesi 163
10 Prodigiosa mendacia uatum: Responses to the Marvellous in Ovid's Narrative of Perseus (Metamorphoses 4-5) Florence Klein 189
11 Encountering the Fantastic: Expectations, Forms of Communication, Reactions Marco Fucecchi 213
12 Constructing a Narrative of mira deum: The Story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8) Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 231
13 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.416-51: noua monstra and the foedera naturae Damien Nelis 248
14 Latrator Anubis: Alien Divinities in Augustan Rome, and how to Tame Monsters through Aetiology Gianpiero Rosati 268
15 Ordering Wonderland: Ovid's Pythagoras and the Augustan Vision Mary Beagon 288
16 Delusions of Grandeur: Lucretian 'Passages' in Livy Andrew Feldherr 310
17 The Strange Art of the Sententious Declaimer Joy Connolly 330
References 350
Indexes 381
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Mario Avila
reviewed Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture on March 22, 2018
Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture
This book was not what I expected. I expected to read the medieval tales of the robbers with minimal discussion. Instead, the book was largely discussion with summaries and excerpts from the tales.
The discussion was very good. Keen identified several patterns in the tales and made a good central argument of literature reflecting class struggles. The introduction to the second edition changes the thesis by stating the intended audience was the upper-lower class and the lower-middle class rather than the previously believed lower class.
One of the most interesting observations was that the audiences glorified the robbers, rather than those who rose against the existing order and sought to use violence to bring about change. This observation led to a discussion that those who stood up on principle universally lost...their lives. Conversely, a large number of the robbers adapted to the system and succeeded...at least, that is how their epics ended. The moral for the audience was to give up ideals of a utopia and craft out your resistance by adapting to the system and using it to your advantage.
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