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...
Основен автор: | Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941- |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English Italian |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c1994.
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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.