In Ilias Latina. Text, Interpretation, and Reception, the contributors approach this short poem, whose appeal and importance have not been sufficiently appreciated, from a multitude of scholarly perspectives. The challenging synthesis of the different issues shows that both a new edition and a modern literary interpretation of the poem are needed. Particularly focusing in various ways on the technique of vertere, the papers concern four main issues: the different elements of the narration, such as macro- and microstructure, single Bauformen and motifs, characters and scenes; the intertextual allusions to Homer and the texts of the Roman poetic tradition; the literary genre, the explicitly metaliterary passages and the implicit narrative and poetic choices; the medieval reception of the Ilias Latina.
Maria Jennifer Falcone (Università di Pavia-Cremona) is currently Ricercatrice in Latin Language and Literature. She has published a monograph on Medea in the tragedy of the Republican period and many articles mainly focusing on Latin poetry.
Christoph Schubert holds the chair of Classical Philology (Latin Studies) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research areas are the poetry of the first century C.E. and the Christian literature of late antiquity.
1 Introduction
âMaria Jennifer Falcone and Christoph Schubert
2 Zur Struktur und Erzähltechnik der Ilias Latina
âGiuseppe Aricò
3 The Ilias Latina in the Context of Ancient Epitome Translation
âMassimo Cè
4 Bauform in der Kürze: Zum Umgang mit epischen Strukturen in der Ilias Latina
âChristiane Reitz
5 Die âSchlachtenbücherâ in der Ilias Latina: Beobachtungen zu Gefallenen und Todesdarstellung
âFabian Horn
6 Narrative Strategien der lysis in ausgewählten Szenen von Ilias 24 und die Umsetzung in der Ilias Latina: Aufschub im Monumentalen und Hervorhebung der archaischen anthropologischen Grunderfahrung im Leid vs. Ilias light mit römischem Anstrich
âAnton Bierl
7 Homer without the Calories: Eating and Drinking in the Ilias Latina
âGeorgina White
8 Homer als Hintergrundtext für die Ilias Latina (!?)
âGerlinde Huber-Rebenich
9 Die Ilias nach Vergil: Zur Charakterisierung trojanischer Helden in der Ilias Latina
âMaria Jennifer Falcone
10 Baebiusâ Ovid
âLuigi Galasso
11 About Some Narrative and Discursive Devices in the Ilias Latina
âJudith Rohman
12 Die poetologische Bedeutung der Sphragis der Ilias Latina
âKatrin Schürmann
13 Die Akrosticha der Ilias Latina und ihre poetologische Bedeutung
âChristoph Schubert
14 Fighting Over Women at Troy: Roman Sexual Aggression in the Ilias Latina
âSteven J. Green