Creative Imitation and Latin Literature (Paperback, 1st)

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.