Carminis Personae – Character in Roman Poetry

This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. Authors discussed are Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Lucan and an epigrammatist of the 6th centrury A.D., Maximianus Etruscus and problems treated vary from theoretical through poetical to historical questions.

Maria Grazia Iodice is a Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests are Ovid, Virgil, Cicero and educational problems of the classic. She has held training courses for teachers of secondary schools in Rome and various cities of Italy, as well as an advanced course in distance for the teaching staff and for young graduates titled . Mariusz Zagórski is a lecturer at the Department of Classics at University of Warsaw. His research interests include Roman poetry, especially epic and elegy, as well as modern literary theory and translation. He has published on Ovid, Cicero, early Christian rhetoric and Neo Latin poetry.

Contents: Paolo Fedeli: Orazio, . 4.2 e il conflitto dei generi poetici – Barbara Milewska-Wa?bi?ska: Gaius Cornelius Gallus come personaggio letterario – Jakub Pigo?: Camilla and Asbyte: Two Female Warriors in Roman Epic – Theodora Chrysostomou: Die Selbstinterpretation des Dichters bei Tibull – Krzysztof Rzepkowski: Il personaggio della nella commedia e nella poesia romana – Mariusz Zagórski: Lovers in Dialogue: Roman Elegy and the Bakhtinian Concept of Character – Maria Grazia Iodice: Figure paterne nei primi due libri delle di Ovidio – El?bieta Weso?owska: Ariadne, Medea, and Gratitude. Some Remarks – Aldo Luisi: Livia cantata da Ovidio tra realtà e finzione letteraria.