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History of Latin Literature from Its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus by Laurel Fulkerson and Jeffrey Tatum (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108723241
ISBN-139781108723244
eBay Product ID (ePID)9068551538
Product Key Features
Number of Pages348 Pages
Publication NameHistory of Latin Literature from Its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectAncient / General, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorLaurel Fulkerson, Jeffrey Tatum
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2024-010894
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal870.9001
Table Of Content1. Romanized Muses: the birth of Latin literature; 2. All the world's a stage: Roman republican drama and theatrical traditions; 3. A good man skilled in speaking: oratory and rhetoric in Rome; 4. Song of myself: the personal voice in republican literature; 5. To educate and to entertain: didactic and the arrangement of knowledge; 6. What's past is prologue: history and biography; 7. Moments of Glad Grace: Augustan Love Poetry; 8. Gods, monsters, and heroes: Augustan epic; 9. Further voices: Augustan personal poetry.
SynopsisLatin literature exploded onto the scene from relatively humble beginnings in the third century BCE. In an astonishingly short time the Romans adopted and adapted nearly all the genres of literature known to them and not only were they well aware of their large-scale appropriation but even, curiously, boasted of it. This readable new history of Latin literature covers the full span of the Roman republic, concluding with the age of Augustus, whose great poets engaged with the enormous political and cultural changes of their time and laid the foundations for the literature of the Imperial period. All the major writers are covered but attention is also paid to more fragmentary but still key authors such as Ennius, Cato, Lucilius, and Varro. Readers are given the essential historical, cultural, and literary background as well as close readings of specific passages, which reveal the charm and complexity which animate Latin literature., Readable new history of the explosion of Latin literature from relatively humble beginnings to global status. All the major writers are covered, as well as fragmentary but still key authors. Latin literature is set in its Roman context, but is also revealed as witty, charming, frightening, profound - and fun.
LC Classification NumberPA6003.F85 2024
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