Latin literature exploded onto the scene from relatively humble beginnings in the third century BCE. In an astonishingly short time the Romans adopted and adapted nearly all the genres of literature known to them and not only were they well aware of their large-scale appropriation but even, curiousl...

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Hauptverfasser:	Fulkerson, Laurel 1972- (VerfasserIn), Tatum, William Jeffrey 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press [2024]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 240 v.Chr.-17 Latein Literatur
Zusammenfassung:	Latin literature exploded onto the scene from relatively humble beginnings in the third century BCE. In an astonishingly short time the Romans adopted and adapted nearly all the genres of literature known to them and not only were they well aware of their large-scale appropriation but even, curiously, boasted of it. This readable new history of Latin literature covers the full span of the Roman republic, concluding with the age of Augustus, whose great poets engaged with the enormous political and cultural changes of their time and laid the foundations for the literature of the Imperial period. All the major writers are covered but attention is also paid to more fragmentary but still key authors such as Ennius, Cato, Lucilius, and Varro. Readers are given the essential historical, cultural, and literary background as well as close readings of specific passages, which reveal the charm and complexity which animate Latin literature
Beschreibung:	1. Romanized Muses: the birth of Latin literature; 2. All the world's a stage: Roman republican drama and theatrical traditions; 3. A good man skilled in speaking: oratory and rhetoric in Rome; 4. Song of myself: the personal voice in republican literature; 5. To educate and to entertain: didactic and the arrangement of knowledge; 6. What's past is prologue: history and biography; 7. Moments of Glad Grace: Augustan Love Poetry; 8. Gods, monsters, and heroes: Augustan epic; 9. Further voices: Augustan personal poetry
Beschreibung:	xviii, 382 Seiten Karten
ISBN:	9781108723244 9781108481779