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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Robert A. Rohland
Robert A. Rohland
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Trinity College, Cambridge

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Carpe Diem
The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. A Note on Ancient Texts and Translations

  4. List of Abbreviations

  5. Introduction: In Search of Present Time

    1. A Requiem for Carpe Diem

    2. The Pleasure in Greek and Latin Texts

    3. Performance, Text, and Evocation of Presence

    4. The Structure of the Book

  6. 1The Archaeology of Carpe Diem: Sardanapallus, Monuments, Epigrams, and False Beginnings

    1. 1.1The Invention of Carpe Diem

    2. 1.2To Have and Have Not: Sardanapallus in Verse

    3. 1.3The Art of Variation

    4. 1.4The Professor of Desire, Sardanapallus in Rome

  7. 2A Moveable Feast: Wine Storage Places as Drinkable Calendars in Horace

    1. 2.1Wine O’Clock: The Present Moment in Horace, Epodes 13

    2. 2.2Drinking Again and Thinking of When: Reperformance in Odes 3.8

    3. 2.3Horace’s Fasti: Wine Storage Places at C. 3.8 (again), C. 2.3, C. 3.28

    4. 2.4Memories of Linguistic Wars: Tasting Language in Odes 3.14

  8. 3Gathering Leaves: Horace, Choice of Words, Cyclical Time, and the Production of Presence

    1. 3.1Words That Are Green Turn to Brown: Words and Leaves in the Ars Poetica

    2. 3.2A Linguistic Turn Around and Around: Horace on Semantic Change

    3. 3.3Bags Full of Leaves: Coinages in Horace’s Carpe Diem Poems (C. 4.7, 1.11, 1.36)

  9. 4The Pleasure of Images: Epigrams and Objects 100 ʙᴄ–ᴀᴅ 100

    1. 4.1Cups

    2. 4.2Gems

    3. 4.3Dining Halls and Tombs

  10. 5As Is the Generation of Leaves, So Are the Generations of Cows, Mice, and Gigolos: Excerpe Diem! or Excerpts of Carpe Diem

    1. 5.1Plucking Grass: Cows, Flocks, Vergil, Georgics 3, and Seneca

    2. 5.2Plucking the Road, or Of Mice and Muses: Horace, Sermones 2.6

    3. 5.3Butchering Poetry: Trimalchio, Petronius’ Satyrica, and Athenaeus

    4. 5.4Plucking Flowers: Naevolus in Juvenal 9

  11. Epilogue: Echoes of Carpe Diem

  12. Bibliography

  13. General Index

  14. Index Locorum

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