Romane memento: vergil in the fourth century

This New Collection Of Essays Takes As Its Theme The Reception Of Rome’s Greatest Poet In A Time Of Profound Cultural Change. Amid The Rise Of Christianity, The Changing Status Of The City Of Rome, And The Emergence Of New Governing Classes, Vergil Is Seen To Have Remained A Bedrock Of Roman Education And Identity. Romane Memento Considers The Different Ways In Which Vergil Was Read, Understood And Appropriated – By Poets, Commentators, Church Fathers, Orators And Historians. Romane Memento Will Be Of Interest To Literary Critics And Cultural Historians Of Late Antiquity, And Also To Vergilianists Unfamiliar With The Literature Of The Fourth Century.–book Jacket. Introduction / Roger Rees — Refinement And Reappraisal In Vergilian Pastoral / Roger Green — Praising In Prose : Vergil In The Panegyrics / Roger Rees — Vergil And The Gospels : The Evangeliorum Libri Iv Of Juvencus / Michael Roberts — Vergil, Homer And Empire : The Descriptio Orbis Terrae Of Avenius / Roy Gibson — Sex And Salvation In The Vergilian Cento Of The Fourth Century / Karla Pollmann — Doing What Comes Naturally? : Vergil And Ambrose / Ivor Davidson — Augustine, The Grammarians And The Cultural Authority Of Vergil / Richard Lim — Recycled Words : Vergil, Prudentius And Saint Hippolytus / Charles Witke — Sunt Etiam Musis Sua Ludicra : Vergil In Ausonius / Gerard O’daly — Claudian, Vergil And The Two Battles Of Frigidus / Catherine Ware — The Plato Of Poets : Vergil In The Historia Augusta / Daniel Den Hengst — The Truth About Vergil’s Commentators / Charles Murgia — Epilogue / Danuta Shanzer. Edited By Roger Rees. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 215-228) And Index.