Latin Literature: A History

Front Cover
JHU Press, Nov 19, 1999 - History - 827 pages

The authoriatative history of Latin literature.

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 History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte.

From inside the book

Contents

Literary History and Historiography I
1
The Early and Middle Republics
11
PART
21
The Early Roman Theater
29
Livius Andronicus
39
Plautus
49
Caecilius Statius
65
Literature and Culture in the Period of the Conquests
71
From Its Beginnings to the Early Empire
394
The Literature of the Early Empire
401
Seneca
408
The Poetic Genres in the JulioClaudian Period
426
Lucan
440
Petronius
453
Persius and Juvenal
467
Literary Success
491

Cato
85
Terence
92
Lucretius
155
Cicero
175
The Rhetorical Works
186
Language and Style
199
Bibliography
207
Caesar
225
Sallust
234
The Histories and the Crisis of the Republic
240
Characteristics of a Period
249
Virgil
262
Horace
292
The Satires
298
Cultural Project and Philosophical Withdrawal
312
Bibliography
319
Ovid
340
Livy
367
Literary Success
374
Scholarship and Technical Disciplines
386
Pliny the Elder and Specialist Knowledge
497
Martial and the Epigram
505
Quintilian
512
The Age of the Adoptive Emperors
519
Pliny the Younger
525
Suetonius and the Minor Historians
546
Apuleius
553
Philology Rhetoric and Literary Criticism Law
571
The Poetae Novelli
588
From Constantine to the Sack of Rome 306410
621
The Editing of the Classics
632
The Histories by Subject
652
Bibliography
671
The Apogee of Christian Culture
678
Augustine and the Confessions
688
Other Fathers of the Church
694
Appendixes
729
Index of Names
819
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (1999)

Gian Biagio Conte is a professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.