Literature in the Roman WorldOliver Taplin In this volume, we are offered a new perspective on Roman literature, based on the conviction that our present appreciation for it should be informed and influenced by how it was originally perceived. From the beginning of the Roman Empire to the end of the classical era, this book focuses on the "receivers" of Roman literature-the readers, spectators, and audiences who first witnessed the works. Six contributors map out the lively and provocative surveys, covering the kinds of literature that have shaped Western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, elegy, satire, biography, and panegyric. |
Contents
Prose literature down to the time | 27 |
Poetry of the late Republic | 52 |
Poetry between the death of Caesar and | 75 |
Poetry of the later Augustan | 119 |
Prose literature from | 154 |
Epic of the imperial period | 184 |
The literature of leisure | 208 |
Latin literature from the second century to the end | 235 |
Further Reading | 263 |
Acknowledgements | 281 |
Common terms and phrases
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