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Latinity and literary society at Rome /

Latinity and Literary Society at Rome reaches back to the early Roman empire to examine attitudes toward Latinity, reviewing the contested origins of scholarly Latin in the polemical arena of Roman literature. W. Martin Bloomer shows how that literature's reflections on correct and incorrect sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bloomer, W. Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Contested Ground of Latinitas
  • 1. Literary Censors and Marble Latin
  • 2. Latin Experts and Roman Masters
  • 3. The Rhetoric of Freedmen: The Fables of Phaedrus
  • 4. Declamatory Pleading: A New Literary History
  • 5. The Imperial Mask of Rhetoric: Animus and Vultus in the Annals of Tacitus
  • 6. The Rival in the Text
  • Index of Passages.