January 1979
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The American Journal of Philology
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... Several factors served to inhibit earlier readers' interest in these poems: their pessimistic worldview (especially the Thebaid), the difficulty and artificiality of their style (especially the Argonautica), their unceasing dialogue with a lengthy poetic tradition, and the uneven history of their european reception (especially the Punica). Works which scholars only a generation ago could describe as decadent and mannerist (Vessey 1982;Williams 1978) now invite attentive and sophisticated readings from a growing group of professional Latinists. The rapidly expanding corpus of new critical editions, philological commentaries, translations, monographic studies, and essay collections indicate the widespread revival of interest in these fascinating texts. ...
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January 1979
The American Journal of Philology