{"product_id":"latin-poets-and-italian-gods-elaine-fantham-9781487526139","title":"Latin Poets and Italian Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on Elaine Fantham's 2004 Robson lectures, \u003cem\u003eLatin Poets and Italian Gods\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy. Study of Roman gods is often limited to the grand equivalents of the Olympian Greek deities such as Jupiter, Mars, and Juno. However, real-life Italians gave a lot of their affection and loyalty to humbler gods with no Greek equivalent: local nymphs who supplied healing waters, the great Tiber river and other lesser rivers, the lusty garden god Priapus, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLatin Poets and Italian Gods\u003c\/em\u003e surveys the representation of these old country gods in poets from Plautus to Statius. Fantham offers historical and epigraphic evidence of worship offered to these colourful lesser spirits and reveals the emotional importance of local Italian deities to the sophisticated poets of the Augustan age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elaine Fantham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 148752613X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487526139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Elaine Fantham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46767241396479,"sku":"9781487526139","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d829d6f8-fe09-41d6-bb45-d21494af2bf6.jpg?v=1744169241","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/latin-poets-and-italian-gods-elaine-fantham-9781487526139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}