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Latin literature : a history /

This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A Hist...

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Основен автор: Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941-
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Italian
Публикувано: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.
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Подобни документи: Online version:: Latin literature.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: literary history and historiography
  • Part I. The early and middle republics
  • The origins
  • The early roman theater
  • Livius Andronicus
  • Naevius
  • Plautus
  • Caecilius Statius
  • Oratory and historiography in the archaic period
  • Literature and culture in the period of the conquests
  • Ennius
  • Cato
  • Terence
  • The development of tragedy: Pacuvius and Accius
  • The development of epic poetry: from Ennius to Virgil
  • Lucilius
  • Politics and culture between the era of the Gracchi and the Sullan restoration
  • Part II. The late republic
  • The age of Caesar (78-44 B.C.)
  • Neoteric poetry and Catullus
  • Lucretius
  • Cicero
  • Philology, biography, and antiquarianism at the end of the republic
  • Caesar
  • Sallust
  • Part III. The age of Augustus
  • 43 B.C. - A.D. 17: Characteristics of a period
  • Virgil
  • Horace
  • Elegy: Tibullus and Propertius
  • Ovid
  • Livy
  • Directions in historiography
  • Scholarship and technical disciplines
  • Legal literature: from its beginnings to the early empire
  • Part IV. The early empire
  • Culture and spectacle: the literature of the early empire
  • Seneca
  • The poetic genres in the Julio-Claudian period
  • Lucan
  • Petronius
  • Satire under the Principate: Persius and Juvenal
  • Epic in the Flavian period
  • Pliny the elder and specialist knowledge
  • Martial and the epigram
  • Quintilian
  • The age of the adoptive emperors
  • Pliny the younger
  • Tacitus
  • Suetonius and the minor historians
  • Apuleius
  • Philology, rhetoric and literary criticism, law
  • Developments in poetry: the Poetae Novelli
  • Part V. The late empire
  • From the Severans to Diocletian (193-305)
  • From Constantine to the sack of Rome (306-410)
  • The apogee of Christian culture
  • From Honorius to Odoacer (410-476)
  • The dawn of the middle ages.