The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Latin literature, Volume 2E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated. |
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Contents
Books and readers in the Roman world | 3 |
Author and public | 15 |
The fata libellorum | 25 |
The sense of cornua | 31 |
The genesis of poetry in Rome | 56 |
Ennius Annales | 60 |
Drama | 77 |
3333 | 89 |
Senecan tragedy | 530 |
Flavian epic | 558 |
339 | 578 |
Martial and Juvenal | 597 |
Minor poetry | 624 |
History and biography | 639 |
Rhetoric and scholarship | 674 |
Introductory | 683 |
33333 | 107 |
Prose literature | 138 |
The satires of Ennius and Lucilius | 156 |
Predecessors | 175 |
Poet and philosopher | 213 |
Cicero and the relationship of oratory to literature | 230 |
Sallust by F R D GOODYEAR Hildred Carlile Professor of Latin Bedford | 268 |
College University of London | 281 |
Uncertainties | 297 |
The Georgics | 320 |
Horace | 378 |
20 | 404 |
21 | 420 |
The poems of exile | 442 |
Achievement and characteristics | 455 |
Challenge and response by D W T C VESSEY Lecturer in Classics Queen Mary College | 497 |
Persius | 509 |
Senecan prose | 519 |
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Latin literature, Volume 2 E. J. Kenney,W. V. Clausen No preview available - 1982 |
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature E. J. Kenney,W. V. Clausen No preview available - 1982 |
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