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Latin literature [electronic resource] / edited by E.J. Kenney ; advisory editor, W.V. Clausen.

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Provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Rome. Looks at various forms of Roman literature, including drama, satire, poetry, prose, and oratory. Discusses figures such as Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge Core)
Other Authors: Kenney, E. J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Series:Cambridge history of classical literature ; 2.
Subjects:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Rome > Civilization.
Civilization.
Latin literature.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • READERS AND CRITICS
  • Books and readers in the Roman world / E.J. Kenney
  • Literary criticism / Michael Winterbottom
  • PART II EARLY REPUBLIC
  • The genesis of poetry in Rome / Gordon Williams
  • Ennius' Annales / A.S. Gratwick
  • Drama / A.S. Gratwick
  • Prose literature / A.S. Gratwick
  • The satires of Ennius and Lucilius / A.S. Gratwick
  • PART III LATE REPUBLIC
  • Predecessors / E.J. Kenney
  • The new direction in poetry / W.V. Clausen
  • Lucretius / Alexander Dalzell
  • Cicero and the relationship of oratory to literature / L.P. Wilkinson
  • Sallust / F.R.D. Goodyear
  • Caesar / R.M. Ogilvie
  • Prose and mime / Nicholas Horsfall
  • PART IV THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS
  • Uncertainties / E.J. Kenney
  • Theocritus and Virgil / W.V. Clausen
  • The Georgics / L.P. Wilkinson
  • The Aeneid / R. Deryck Williams
  • Horace / Niall Rudd
  • Love elegy / Georg Luck
  • Ovid / E.J. Kenney
  • Livy / R.M. Ogilvie
  • Minor figures / J.C. Bramble
  • PART V EARLY PRINCIPATE
  • Challenge and response / D.W.T.C. Vessey
  • Persius / Niall Rudd
  • The Younger Seneca / C.J. Herington
  • Lucan / J.C. Bramble
  • Flavian epic / D.W.T.C. Vessey
  • Martial and Juvenal / J.C. Bramble
  • Minor poetry / F.R.D. Goodyear
  • Prose satire / F.R.D. Goodyear
  • History and biography / F.R.D. Goodyear
  • Technical writing / F.R.D. Goodyear
  • Rhetoric and scholarship / F.R.D. Goodyear
  • PART VI LATER PRINCIPATE
  • Introductory / Robert Browning
  • Poetry / Robert Browning
  • Biography / Robert Browning
  • History / Robert Browning
  • Oratory and epistolography / Robert Browning
  • Learning and the past / Robert Browning
  • Minor figures / Robert Browning
  • Apuleius / P.G. Walsh
  • PART VII EPILOGUE / P.G. Walsh
  • Appendix of authors and works / Martin Drury
  • Metrical appendix / Martin Drury
  • Works Cited in the Text.

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