Tombs of the Ancient Poets

Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor of Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently completing a monograph on fictional biography and the reception of Latin poetry, Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (under contract with Cambridge University Press).Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics and Head of Department at Durham University. Her most recent monographs are The Gods of Olympus: A History (Profile Books, 2014) and Homer (Oxford University Press, 2016). She recently completed a major research project, funded by the European Research Council, on visual and narrative portraits of the ancient Greek and Roman poets, entitled Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry. This volume stems from that project.

Tombs of the Ancient Poets is a balanced and exceptionally accomplished publication, which will serve not only researchers dealing with antiquity but also those interested in the broader topics of "cultural saints" and the literary tradition and its spatiality.

• FrontmatterList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsList of Contributors0: Nora Goldschmidt and Barbara Graziosi: IntroductionPart I: Material Texts, Textual Materials1: Verity Platt: Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece2: Richard Rawles: Simonides on Tombs, and the 'Tomb of Simonides'3: Francesca Martelli: Ennius' imago between Tomb and Text4: Valentina Garulli: A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: The Tomb of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus on the Via Salaria5: Nora Goldschmidt: Ovid's Tombs: Afterlives of a Poetic corpusPart II: The Poet as Character6: Emmanuela Bakola: Earth, Nature, and the Cult of the Tomb: The Posthumous Reception of Aeschylus' heros7: Peter Bing: Tombs of the Poets' Minor Characters8: Barbara Graziosi: Still Singing: The Case of OrpheusPart III: Collecting Tombs9: Regina Höschele: Poets' Corners in Greek Epigram Collections10: Silvia Montiglio: Impermanent Stones, Permanent Plants: Tombs of Poets as Material Objects in the Palatine Anthology11: Johanna Hanink: Pausanias' Dead Poets SocietyPart IV: The Tomb of Virgil12: Andrew Laird: Dead Letters and Buried Meaning: Approaching the Tomb of Virgil13: Irene Peirano Garrison: The Tomb of Virgil between Text, Memory, and Site14: Harald Hendrix: Virgil's Tomb in Scholarly and Popular Culture15: Sam Smiles: Ruins and Reputations: The Tomb of the Poet in Visual ArtEndmatterBibliographyIndex