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Intertextuality in Pliny's Epistles

Editors:
Margot Neger, University of Cyprus
Spyridon Tzounakas, University of Cyprus

Margot Neger, Spyridon Tzounakas, Christopher Whitton, Roy Gibson, Alice König, Matthew Mordue, Stefano Rocchi, Michael Hanaghan, Judith Hindermann, Alberto Canobbio, Ábel Tamás, Christopher Chinn, Jakub Pigoń, Ilaria Marchesi

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Date Published: September 2023
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Pliny's Epistles are full of literary artistry. This volume of essays by an impressive international team of scholars showcases this by exploring the intertextual, interdiscursive and also intermedial character of the collection. It provides a contribution to the recent scholarly interest in Latin prose intertextuality and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. Focusing on the whole collection as well as on single books and selected letters, it investigates Pliny's strategies of incorporating literary models and genres into his epistolary oeuvre, thus creating a kind of 'super-genre' himself. In addition to displaying Pliny's literary techniques, the volume also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.
- Explores the intertextuality and interdiscursive character of Pliny the Younger's Letters through in-depth case studies
- Demonstrates the generic flexibility of ancient epistolography which can absorb a plurality of literary and non-literary genres and texts
- Essential for those generally interested in epistolography and prose-intertextuality
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- Date Published: September 2023
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009294782
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction Margot Neger and Spyridon Tzounakas
Part I. Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Pliny's Letters:
1. Pliny, Man of Many Parts (Lucretius, Cicero, Valerius Maximus, Tacitus) Christopher Whitton
2. Intertextuality in Pliny Epistles 6 Roy Gibson
3. Discourses of Authority in Pliny, Epistles 10 Alice König
Part II. Models and Anti-Models: Pliny's Interaction with Oratory and Natural History
4. Oratorical Speeches and the Political Elite in the Regulus Cycle Matthew Mordue
5. Again on Corinthian Bronzes and Vases and on the Use of Cicero's Verrine Orations in Pliny's Works Stefano Rocchi
6. The Elder Pliny as source of inspiration: Pliny the Younger's reception of the Naturalis Historia and his uncle's writing by the light of a lamp (lucubratio) Judith Hindermann
Part III. Pliny and Seneca: Discourses of Grief and Posthumous Reputation
7. Pliny's Seneca and the Intertextuality of Grief Michael Hanaghan
8. Intertextuality and Posthumous Reputation in Pliny's Letter on the Death of Silius Italicus (Plin. Ep. 3.7) Spyridon Tzounakas
Part IV. Pliny's Villas and their Poetic Models:
9. The Villa and the Monument: Horace in Plin. Ep. 1.3 Alberto Canobbio
10. The Villas of Pliny and Statius Christopher Chinn
Part V. Pliny Turns Nasty: Satire and the Scoptic Tradition
11. A Busy Day in Rome: Pliny Ep. 1.9 Satirized by Horace Sat. 1.9 Ábel Tamás
12. Putting Pallas out of Context: Pliny on the Roman Senate voting Honours to a Freedman (Ep. 7.29 and 8.6) Jakub Pigoń
13. Risus et indignatio: Scoptic Elements in Pliny's Letters Margot Neger
Part VI. Final Thoughts: Discourses of Representation and Reproduction
14. Pliny's Calpurnia: Filiation, Imitation, Allusion Ilaria Marchesi.
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Editors
Margot Neger, University of Cyprus
Margot Neger is an Assistant Professor of Latin at the University of Cyprus. She has published monographs on Martial and Pliny the Younger as well as articles and chapters on ancient epigram, epistolography and late antique literature.
Spyridon Tzounakas, University of Cyprus
Spyridon Tzounakas is an Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Cyprus. His main research and publications focus on Roman satire, Roman epistolography, Roman epic, Roman elegy, Cicero's orations, and Roman intertextuality. He is currently working on a monograph on Persius.
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Margot Neger, Spyridon Tzounakas, Christopher Whitton, Roy Gibson, Alice König, Matthew Mordue, Stefano Rocchi, Michael Hanaghan, Judith Hindermann, Alberto Canobbio, Ábel Tamás, Christopher Chinn, Jakub Pigoń, Ilaria Marchesi