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Roman Literary Culture : From Plautus to Macrobius /
Added chapters in this edition extend the time of coverage both forward and backward, though the bulk of the bulk still covers Latin literature from 50 BCE to 150 CE.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Toward a social history of Latin literature ; Author, audience, and medium ; Ennius and Cato, two early writers ; New genres of literature, from Lucilius to Apuleius ; Generic preoccupations
- One. Starting from scratch ; Drama
- the first literary genre ; Comedy: Naevius, Plautus, and Terence ; The tragic tradition ; Patriotism and history in poetry and prose ; The first Latin history: Cato's Origines ; From the Gracchi to Sulla: Lucilian satire and the new individualism ; Catullus and Lucretius
- Two. Rome at the end of the Republic ; Roman education, for better or worse ; Literature and nationalism ; Literature and the amateur ; Literary studies and the recreation of literary history ; Literature and scholarship: Cicero's evidence for the studies of Caesar and Varro
- Three. The coming of the principate: "Augustan" literary culture ; Two survivors: the new poets Gallus and Virgil ; The Roman poetry book, a new literary form ; Private and public patronage ; The emperor as theme and patron ; The best of patrons, and the patron's greater friend ; Performance and readership ; Spoken and written prose in Augustan society: rhetoric as training and display ; The first real histories
- Four. Un-Augustan activities ; The literature of youth ; Love and elegy ; Ovid the scapegoat, and the sorrows of Augustus ; Innocence and power of the book.
- Five. An inhibited generation: suppression and survival ; Permissible literature: prose ; Moral treatises and letters ; Didactic and descriptive poetry ; The tastes and prejudices of Augustus's imperial successors ; The divergence of theater and drama
- Six. Between Nero and Domitian: the challenge to poetry ; The Neronian revival ; Poetry and parody in a new setting ; Vicissitudes of the epic muse ; Professional poets in the time of Domitian
- Seven. Literature and the governing classes: from the accession of Vespasian to the death of Trajan ; Equestrian and senatorial writers: a changing elite ; Choices of literary career: fame or survival? ; Pliny's letters and his literary world ; The public world of the senator and orator ; The world of the auditorium.
- Eight. Literary culture in decline: the Antonine years ; Hadrian, the Philhellene ; The traveling sophists ; The provinces and Latin culture ; Marcus Aurelius and his teachers ; Aulus Gellius, the eternal student in Rome and Greece ; Apuleius, the ultimate word artist
- Nine. Classical literary culture and the impact of christianity ; Tertullian and his successors ; Diocletian and a generation of political change ; Ausonius ; The controversy over the Altar of victory: Symmachus and Prudentius ; Claudian ; The maturity of christian prose: Jerome and Augustine ; Macrobius: the last celebrant of secular literary culture.