Michael C. J. Putnam

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#4108

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#6619

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#1886

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#102

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#214

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, but has also studied literature written in many other languages. Putnam has been particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil‘s ‘’Aeneid‘’. He is the son of politician and businessman Roger Putnam. Putnam received his B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. from Harvard. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1959 he taught at Smith College for a year. He then moved on to teach at Brown University and serving as W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and a professor of comparative literature for 48 years before retiring in 2008. He was awarded the 1963 Rome Prize,and was later a Resident and Mellon Professor in Charge of the Classical School . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the American Philosophical Society in 1998.

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Michael C. J. Putnam's Published Works

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A companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its tradition (2010) (90)
The Poetry of the Aeneid (1965) (86)
Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence (1995) (81)
Virgil's epic designs : ekphrasis in the Aeneid (2000) (71)
The Virgilian tradition : the first fifteen hundred years (2008) (70)
Artifices of Eternity: Horace's Fourth Book of Odes (1986) (54)
Dido´s Murals and Virgilian Ekphrasis (1998) (51)
Tibullus: A Commentary (1979) (45)
Anger, Blindness and Insight in Virgil's Aeneid (1990) (43)
Virgil's Pastoral Art. Studies in the Eclogues (1971) (40)
Arktouros : Hellenic studies presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday (1979) (39)
Virgil's Poem of the Earth: Studies in the Georgics (1979) (36)
Horace's Carmen Saeculare. Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art (2002) (35)
Virgil's Danaid Ekphrasis (1994) (34)
The poetry of the Aeneid : four studies in imaginative unity and design (1965) (31)
The Art of Catullus 64 (1961) (30)
Daedalus, Virgil and the End of Art (1987) (28)
Virgil and Tibullus 1.1* (2005) (25)
Horace to Torquatus: Epistle 1.5 and Ode 4.7 (2006) (24)
Patterns of Action in the Aeneid: An Interpretation of Vergil's Epic Similes (1970) (23)
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception: Some Virgilian unities (2010) (20)
Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006) (17)
The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid (2012) (14)
Essays on Latin lyric, elegy, and epic (1982) (12)
Catullus 11: The Ironies of Integrity (1974) (12)
The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy (1995) (9)
Aeneid VII and the Aeneid (1970) (9)
The Third Book of the Aeneid: From Homer to Rome (1980) (9)
The ambiguity of art in Virgil`s Aeneid (2001) (6)
Virgil's Inferno (1991) (6)
Propertius 1. 22: A Poet's Self-Definition (1976) (5)
Ganymede and Virgilian Ekphrasis (1995) (5)
The Complete Poems of Tibullus: An En Face Bilingual Edition (2012) (5)
The Halieutica Ascribed to Ovid (1963) (5)
Catullus' Journey (Carm. 4) (1962) (4)
The Erotic Elegies of Albius Tibullus, with the Poems of Sulpicia Arranged as a Sequence Called No Harm to Lovers (1967) (4)
Unity and Design in Aeneid V (1962) (4)
The Future of Catullus (1983) (4)
Structure and Design in Horace "Odes" 1. 17 (1994) (4)
Silvia's Stag and Virgilian Ekphrasis (1995) (3)
The Sense of Two Endings: How Virgil and Statius Conclude (2016) (3)
Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile (2010) (3)
Horace C. 3. 30: The Lyricist as Hero (1973) (3)
Virgil and Tacitus, Ann. 1.10 (1989) (3)
The Shrine of Vortumnus (1967) (3)
Virgil and Heaney: “Route 110” (2022) (3)
Horace and Tibullus (1972) (2)
The Poems of Tibullus (1968) (2)
Dream and prediction in the Aeneid : a semiotic interpretation of the dreams of Aeneas and Turnus (1977) (2)
Statius Siluae 3.2: Reading Travel (2017) (2)
A FAMILY GATHERING AT RHAMNOUS? WHO'S WHO ON THE NEMESIS BASE (2008) (2)
Statius Silvae 1.3: A Stream and Two Villas (2019) (2)
The Aeneid and Paradise Lost: Ends and Conclusions (2006) (2)
Virgil's Lapiths (1990) (2)
Romulus Tropaeophorus (Aeneid 6.779–80) (1985) (2)
Virgil's First Eclogue: Poetics of Enclosure (1975) (2)
The Riddle of Damoetas (Virgil Ecl. 3, 104-105) (1965) (2)
The Loom of Latin (2001) (1)
Two ways of looking at the aeneid. (2003) (1)
Simple Tibullus or the Ruse of Style (1970) (1)
A Labor of Love: Statius Silvae 3.1 (Hercules Surrentinus Polli Felicis) (2020) (1)
Regina Aurea (Aen. 1. 697–98) (2018) (1)
The center for hellenic studies: 1961-1962 (2009) (1)
Daphne's roots: In memoriam Charles Segal (2016) (1)
Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus (2016) (1)
Symbols in Comparative Religion and the Georgics (1969) (1)
Turnus, Homer, and Heroism (1999) (1)
Horace Carm. 1. 5: Love and Death (1970) (1)
Virgil's Aeneid (2008) (1)
Dido's Long Dying (2014) (1)
Evidence for the Origin of the "Script of Luxeuil" (1963) (1)
Spenser and Frost ‘The Silken Tent’ (2013) (1)
The Carmen Saeculare (2010) (1)
Propertius 3.22: Tullus' Return (1977) (1)
more sinister glow than Edgeworth would grant it. If this is peace, her ordinarily unsullied garments have been dyed a gruesome tint. (2016) (0)
Composed and coedited by Johannes Bollandus and Godefridus Henschenius, with the assistance of the Neo-Latin poets Sidronius Hosschius and Jacobus Wallius and published by the Jesuits of the Flemish-Belgian Province in 1640, the Imago Primi (2017) (0)
Chapter 3. Helen (2009) (0)
Horace Odes 3. 15: The Design of Decus (1976) (0)
Horace Carm. 4.7 and the Epic Tradition (2007) (0)
Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis (1974) (0)
7 The Carmen Saeculare and Carmina (2017) (0)
D. Hershkowitz, The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius (Oxford Classical Monograph). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 346. ISBN 0-191-815245-0. £45.00. (1999) (0)
Ferdinand's Triumph and the Vernacular Dramatic Tradition (2013) (0)
Aestimanda: Practical Criticism of Latin and Greek Poetry and Prose (1965) (0)
Notes on Classical Studies. (1969) (0)
Chapter 4. Virgil (2009) (0)
The Art of Love and Remedies for Love by Ovid (1969) (0)
Book Review:The Dido Episode and the "Aeneid": Roman Social and Political Values in the Epic Richard C. Monti (1984) (0)
Book Review:Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the "Georgics." Patricia A. Johnston (1982) (0)
Frigidus Sanguis: Lucretius, Virgil and Death (2013) (0)
Virgil the Homerist (2017) (0)
Explicating Catullus (2016) (0)
6 The Carmen Saeculare and Latin Poetry (2017) (0)
RMU volume 9 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1980) (0)
Horace's Arboreal Anniversary (C. 3.8) (1996) (0)
Repetition in Latin Poetry: Figures of Allusion (review) (1998) (0)
Chapter 2. Speech and Silence (2009) (0)
T. K. Hubbard, The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton . Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 390. ISBN 0-472-10855-7. US$52.50. (2000) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Book Review:The "Georgics" of Virgil: A Critical Survey L. P. Wilkinson (1970) (0)
Chapter 5. Genres and a Dialogue (2009) (0)
Chapter 1. Time and place (2009) (0)
The Story of the Storm (1960) (0)
Why Vergil?: A Collection of Interpretations (1999) (0)
Horace and the Hellenic Heritage (2001) (0)
Index of Poems Cited (2009) (0)
Chapter 7. Vergil’s Aeneid: The Final Lines (2017) (0)
Petronius Satyrica 89 (2013) (0)
The Classic Line. A Study in Epic Poetry (1966) (0)
Helen F. North (2013) (0)
Books Received (1980) (0)
Horatian Hymn and the Carmen Saeculare (2001) (0)
Horace's "Carmen Saeculare" (2017) (0)
Art, music, and spectacle in the age of Rubens : the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi (2013) (0)
Virgil and Sannazaro's Ekphrastic Vision (2011) (0)
Aes Triplex (Horace, Odes 1.3. 9) (1971) (0)

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