Latin Literature: A HistoryThe 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. |
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... Success 90 Bibliography 90 Terence 92 Life , Works , Sources 92 I. Historical Background 93 2. Style and Language 96 3. The Prologues : Terence's Poetics and His Relation to His Models 97 4. Themes and Literary Success of Terence's ...
... Success Bibliography 173 Cicero 175 171 Life , Works , Sources 175 I. Tradition and Innovation in Roman Culture 177 2. The Supremacy of the Word : Political Career and Practical Oratory 178 First Successes and the Trial of Verres 178 ...
... Success 231 Bibliography 232 Sallust 234 Life , Works , Sources 234 230 1. The Historical Monograph as a Literary Genre 235 2. Catiline's Conspiracy and the Fear of the Lower Classes 236 3. The Bellum lugurthae : Sallust and the ...
... Success 317 Bibliography 319 Elegy : Tibullus and Propertius 321 1. Cornelius Gallus 324 2. Tibullus 326 Life and Evidence , Works 326 The Myth of Rural Peace 327 Tibullus as Poeta Doctus 328 Literary Success 329 3. The Corpus ...
... Success Bibliograpy 364 Livy 367 358 Life , Works , Sources 367 1. The Plan of Livy's Work and His Historiographic Method 367 2. The New Regime and the Tendencies of Livy's Historiography 369 3. Narrative Style 372 4. Literary Success ...
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 |
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