So you want to end a Latin poem?
(2017) Invited Lecturer, The King’s Classical Society — Location: Kings College, Cambridge
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- How to end a Latin epic poem, when most Latin epic poems from antiquity are seemingly unfinished? This paper represents a close study of the ending of Latin poems, as well as the problem of the endings of predecessor Greek poetry, including through the scholastic tradition on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It then proposes a new model for studying the putative non-endings of multiple Latin epic poems from late antiquity, including Virgil, Lucan, Sirius Italiques, and Statius, and with focused study of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae, and further reasons for thinking that this non-ending constitutes precisely the ending this poem needed, and got.
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Kachuck, A. (2017). So you want to end a Latin poem? Invited Lecturer, The King’s Classical Society, Kings College, Cambridge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/100990