>Does anyone happen to know if there is a name for poems which welcome >someone home, like a propemptikon in reverse? And what would be the most >notable classical examples? (I apologise for the fact that this is not a >very Virgilian question, but you're all so learned and so nice I couldn't >but prevail on you). > >Colin Burrow, Fellow and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 >1TA >tel: 01223 332483 >web: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. >Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message >"unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You >can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
Cairns' "Generic Composition" is the place to go, I suppose. Perhaps what you're looking for is the "epibaterion," represented (according to the index) by such poems as Horace, Odes 1.7 and 2.6, Propertius 1.17, Tibullus 1.3, and others. James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
