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Roman literary culture :

(Number (ISBN

142140835X

(Number (ISBN

1421408368

(Number (ISBN

9781421408354

(Number (ISBN

9781421408361

Erroneous ISBN

1421409275

Erroneous ISBN

9781421409276

Title Proper

Roman literary culture :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

from Plautus to Macrobius /

First Statement of Responsibility

Elaine Fantham.

Edition Statement

Second edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1996

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 338 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Ancient society and history

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index.

Text of Note

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.

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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.

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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.

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Text of Note

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.

Macrobius,eerste helft 5e E.

Plautus, T. Maccius,ca. 244-184 v. Chr.

Latin literature-- History and criticism.

Literature and history-- Rome.

18.46 ancient Latin literature.

Bellettrie.

Intellectual life.

Latein

Latijn.

Latin literature.

Leesgewoonten.

Literarisches Leben

Literatur

Literature and history.

Literature.

Literature.

Publiek.

Rome, Intellectual life.

Rome (Empire)

Romeinse rijk.

Römisches Reich

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Edition

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Book number

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Fantham, Elaine

Date of Transaction

20200822182323.0

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