Author: Michael von Albrecht
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004107090
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
A History of Roman Literature
Author: Michael von Albrecht
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004107090
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004107090
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
A History of Roman Literature
Author: Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Roman Literary Culture
Author: Elaine Fantham
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140835X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140835X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature
Author: Peter E. Knox
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195395166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195395166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.
The Roman Book
Author: Rex Winsbury
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0715638297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0715638297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.
... A History of Roman Literature
Author: Harold North Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A History of Roman Literature
Author: Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Beyond Greek
Author: Denis Feeney
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674496043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674496043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist
Ancient Rome in So Many Words
Author: Christopher Francese
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780781811538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The brief word-histories in this book are meant to provide background on some words that everyone learns when they study Latin, as well as some rarer terms that have interesting stories to tell about Roman culture. This book lists a new word or phrase that came into American English every year from 1975 to 1998, with a selection of early additions from 1497 to 1750, and discusses the history behind the adoption of each. Teachers and students of Latin can benefit from the slightly more formal, but still anecdotal, approach taken here to some key words in the Latin lexicon.
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN: 9780781811538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The brief word-histories in this book are meant to provide background on some words that everyone learns when they study Latin, as well as some rarer terms that have interesting stories to tell about Roman culture. This book lists a new word or phrase that came into American English every year from 1975 to 1998, with a selection of early additions from 1497 to 1750, and discusses the history behind the adoption of each. Teachers and students of Latin can benefit from the slightly more formal, but still anecdotal, approach taken here to some key words in the Latin lexicon.
Latin Literature
Author: Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the 1000 year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. It offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
This history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the 1000 year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. It offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors.