[PDF] A History Of Roman Literature eBook

Author : Elaine Fantham
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 142140835X

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This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0195395166

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Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.

Author : Rex Winsbury
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0715638297

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What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.

Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674496043

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A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist

Author : Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 1999-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801862533

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This history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the 1000 year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. It offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors.

Author : Edward Togo Salmon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Rome
ISBN : 9780415045049

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Includes an account of political and military developments, and including sections on social, economic an cultural life, this book presents a survey of the Roman world at a time when the Principate was established, and the Pax Romana consolidated.