Afterlives of the Roman Poets

Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry ''for the life'', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of lives in reception. Afterlives of the Roman Poets shows how the fictional biographies (or ''biofictions'') of its authors have shaped the reception of Latin poetry. From medieval biographies of Ovid ins...