{"product_id":"monsters-and-monstrosity-in-augustan-dunstan-lowe-9780472119516","title":"Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry","description":"Roman poets of the Augustan period reinvented monsters from Greek myth, such as Harpies, Furies, and the warring Centaurs and Giants. These monsters represented the attractions and dangers of novelty in various contexts, ranging from social values to artistic innovation. Rome's two great epics of the early principate, Vergil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e and Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e, are both filled with mythical monsters. Like the culture that produced them, these poets were fascinated by unfamiliar forms despite their potential to disturb and disrupt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study of monsters in Augustan poetry, and the first metapoetic reading of monstrosity in classical antiquity. Dunstan Lowe takes a fresh approach to the canonical works of Vergil, Ovid, and their contemporaries, contributing to a very recent turn toward marvels, monsters, and deformity in classical studies.\u003cbr\u003eMonsters provided a fantastical means to explore attitudes toward human nature, especially in its relationship with sex. They also symbolized deformations of poetic form. Such gestures were doomed to replay the defeat of hypermasculine monsters yet, paradoxically, they legitimized poetic innovation. Lowe proposes that monstrosity was acutely topical during the birth of the principate, having featured in aesthetic debates of the Hellenistic age, while also serving as an established, if controversial, means for public figures to amaze the population and display their power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to scholars and students of classical Latin literature and of interdisciplinary monster studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dunstan Lowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472119516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472119516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2016","brand":"Dunstan Lowe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44190930043135,"sku":"9780472119516","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca82c8b9-ae4c-45e8-9e35-8f037071cd46.jpg?v=1690873118","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/monsters-and-monstrosity-in-augustan-dunstan-lowe-9780472119516","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}