Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica

1. Introduction: A century of Manilian scholarship I. INTELLECTUAL AND SCIENTIFIC BACKDROP 2. More sentiment than science: Roman stargazing before and after Manilius 3. Manilius' conflicted Stoicism 4. Myth and explanation in Manilius II. INTEGRITY AND CONSISTENCY 5. Watch this space (getting round book 1: 215-46) 6. On two Stoic 'paradoxes' in Manilius 7. Manilian self-contradiction 8. Arduum ad astra: The poetics and politics of horoscopic failure in Manilius' Astronomica III. METAPHORS 9. Tropes and figures: Manilian style as a reflection of astrological tradition 10. Sums in verse or a mathematical aesthetic? 11. Census and commercium: Two economic metaphors in Manilius IV. DIDACTIC DIGRESSIONS 12. Digressions, intertextuality, and ideology in didactic poetry: The case of Manilius 13. Cosmos and imperium: Politicized digressions in Manilius' Astronomica 14. A song from the universal chorus: The Perseus and Andromeda epyllion V. RECEPTION 15. Augustus, Manilius, and Claudian 16. Renaissance reception of Manilius' anthropology 17. Lorenzo Bonincontri's reception of Manilius' chapter on comets (Astr. 1.809-926)