Classical constructions : papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean

Abstract

1. Laocoon's point of view 2. Phillip Mitsis 3. Bicycles, centaurs, and man-faced ox creatures: ontological instability in Flann O'Brien, Lucretius, Empedocles, and Piero di Cosimo 4. Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius 5. Making an exemplum of yourself: Cicero and Augustus 6. 'Natura barratur': Tullius Laurea's elegy for Cicero (Pliny, HN 31.8) 7. Contrasts 8. Horace's body, Horace's books 9. Ovid among the conspiracy theorists 10. 'Haec tum Roma fuit': past, present, and closure in the Punica 11. Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa 12. Translating antiquity: archaism, anachronism, intertextuality 13. Fiction, philosophy, and logical closure 14. From man to book: the close of Tacitus' Agricola