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In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning.

Didactic poetry, Classical --- Figures of speech in literature --- Didactic poetry, Classical. --- Figures of speech in literature. --- History and criticism --- Guitar --- Construction

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Didactic poetry, Classical --- Poésie didactique classique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- -Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Poésie didactique classique --- Classical didactic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Classical - History and criticism

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Didactic poetry, Classical --- Seasons in literature. --- Poésie didactique classique --- Saisons dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Thomson, James,

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The study offers a comprehensive insight into Ovid's relationship to his predecessors from the tradition of the didactic poem in the Metamorphoses. While the references to Lucretius have been studied many times, the influence of Empedocles has so far hardly been researched. His doctrine of a changing cosmos through the two cosmic actors love (concordia) and dispute (discordia) is already evident in the cosmogony in which Ovid describes the change from chaos (discordia) to cosmos (concordia). The reminiscences testify to the admiration of the teaching poets, but Ovid questions their authority with innovative modifications.--Translation of publisher statement.

Empédocle --- Ovide. --- Influence --- Critique et interprétation --- Didactic poetry, Classical --- Cosmogony in literature --- Littérature antique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Ovid, --- Ovide (0043 av. J.-C.-0017). --- Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- Ovidius Naso, Publius. --- Didactic poetry, Classical. --- Poésie didactique ancienne. --- Metamorphoses (Ovid).

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Didactic poetry, Classical --- Didactic poetry, Latin --- Literary form. --- Poésie didactique classique --- Poésie didactique latine --- Genres littéraires --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Poésie didactique classique --- Poésie didactique latine --- Genres littéraires --- Didactic poetry, English --- Literary form --- English didactic poetry --- English poetry --- Classical didactic poetry --- Classical poetry --- History and criticism --- Darwin, Erasmus, --- Darvin, Ėrazm, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Darwin, Erasmus --- Darwin, Erasme