Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception

David Christenson is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA. He is the author of eight books, including Plautus: Casina (Bloomsbury, 2019). Cynthia White is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA, and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction, David Christenson (University of Arizona, USA)

Part I – Sublime Epic
1. Homer’s Odyssey and the Mystery of Time, Norman Austin (University of Arizona, USA)
2. Helen, Paris, and the Philosophical Eros: Love, Strife, and Sublime Contact from Homer to Plato, Boris Shoshitaishvili (University of Southern California, USA)
3. The Hard-Break at Hesiod, Theogony 200, Frank Romer (East Carolina University, USA)
4. Visions and Memories of Lucretius in Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones, Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College and Conservatory, USA)
5. Vergil’s Bougonia Rite: Its Nature, Sources, and Possible Link to the Indo-European Myth of Creation, Michael Teske† (University of Arizona, USA)

Part II – Celestial Drama
6. An Early Morning Person? Aristophanes and His Star-Studded Comic Prologues, Gonda van Steen (King's College London, UK)
7. Frighteningly Funny Gods: Comic and Cosmic Space in Plautus, David Christenson (University of Arizona, USA)

Part III – History, Historiography, and the Cosmos
8. Day Suddenly Became Night: Eclipses and the Sublime in Greek Historiography, Philip Waddell (University of Arizona, USA)
9. The Cosmic Barrier: The Isthmus of Corinth in Imperial Latin Poetry, David Wright (University of Houston, USA)

Part IV – Reception
10. Reading the Classics in Plague-Ridden England, 1629-1722, Thomas Willard (University of Arizona, USA)
11. '"Solution Sweet" and Keats's Poetic Ideal: Erotic and Nuptial Imagery in The Eve of St. Agnes' , Cynthia White (University of Arizona, USA)

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