Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

by Sander M. Goldberg
Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

by Sander M. Goldberg

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Overview

How the Romans came to have a literature reflecting native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent generations have become central questions in the cultural history of the Republic. This book explores the development of Roman literary sensibility from early interest in epic and drama, through invention of satire and eventual enshrining of books in public collections important to Horace and Ovid. The "early" literature is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected and canonized.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521174190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/21/2011
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 262
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Muse arrives; 2. Becoming literature; 3. Comedy at work; 4. Dido's furies; 5. Enter satire; 6. Roman helicon.
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