The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, The Early Republic & Part 2, The Late Republic & Part 3, The Age of Augustus & Part 4, The Early Principate & Part 5, The Later Principate

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, The Early Republic

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

ISBN-13: 9780521273756
ISBN-10: 0521273757
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1983
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 223
Book Condition: As New
Comments: First Published 1982, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

In the third century BC Rome embarked on the expansion which was ultimately to leave her mistress of the Mediterranean world. As part of that expansion a national literature arose, springing from the union of native linguistic energy with Greek literary forms. Shortly after the middle of the century the first Latin play took the stage; by 100 BC most of the important genres invented by the Greeks - epic, tragedy, comedy, historiography, oratory - were solidly established in their adoptive Roman forms, and a new genre, satire, had been born. The chapters in this volume describe and analyse the process of creative adaptation which shaped the beginnings of Latin literature and laid the foundations for its future development as one of the great literatures of the world. Essential background is provided by introductory chapters on readers and critics in the Roman world. In these are described the form of the books themselves and the conditions under which they were produced, circulated and read. The whole volume offers an indispensable introduction to the understanding of the nature and quality of Latin literature.

Table of Contents
List of plates
1. Books and readers in the Roman world E. J. Kenney
2. Literary criticism Michael Winterbottom
3. The genesis of poetry in Rome Gordon Williams
4. Ennius' Annales A. S. Gratwick
5. Drama A. S. Gratwick
6. Prose literature A. S. Gratwick
7. The satires of Ennius and Lucilius A. S. Gratwick
Abbreviations
Index.

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late Republic

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

ISBN-13: 9780521273749
ISBN-10: 0521273749
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1992
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 153
Book Condition: As New
Comments: First Published 1982, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

This volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of profoundly important developments, with enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. Original and innovative in widely differing ways as was the work of Lucretius, Sallust and Caesar in particular, the scene is dominated, historically, by two figures: Cicero and Catullus. Cicero was a politician and a man of affairs as well as a man of latters, whose vast literary output reflects a range of intellectual interests unparalleled among surviving Roman writers; creator of a prose style the Quintilian regarded as synonymous with eloquence itself; and better known to us, from his letters, as a human being, than any other figure from classical antiquity. Catullus was a poet, single-mindedly devoted to fostering the tradition of learned Alexandrian poetry at Rome; the author of one slender volume of verse that has attracted more critical attention in proportion to its size than any other ancient poetry-book; and the lover of Lesbia. In these chapters it is shown how these, and other, Roman writers of genius continued the process of transforming their traditional Greek models into new and vigorous Latin forms, with lasting effects for oratory, historiography, and the higher genres of poetry.

Table of Contents
1. Predecessors E. J. Kennedy
2. The new direction in poetry W. V. Clasen
3. Lucretius Alexander Dalzell
4. Cicero and the relationship of oratory to literature L. P. Wilkinson
5. Sallust F. R. D. Goodyear
6. Caesar R. M. Ogilvie
7. Prose and mine Nicholas Horsfall
Appendix Martin Drury
Metrical appendix Martin Drury
Abbreviations
Index.
 

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 3, The Age of Augustus

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

ISBN-13: 9780521273732
ISBN-10: 0521273730
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1993
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 239
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 1982, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

The sixty years between 43 BC, when Cicero was assassinated, and AD 17, when Ovid died in exile and disgrace, saw an unexampled explosion of literary creativity in Rome. Fresh ground was broken in almost every existing genre, and a new kind of specifically Roman poetry, the personal love-elegy, was born, flourished, and succumbed to its own success. Latin literature now became, in the familiar modern sense of the word, classical: a balanced fusion of what was best and most stimulating in earlier Greek and Roman writing, charged with new and original life by the individual genius of, most particularly, Virgil, Horace and Ovid. Augustan literature, conventionally viewed as the expression in writing of the age itself - political and social stability reflected in artistic equilibrium - turns out on a close and critical reading to have been subject to the same stresses and strains as the society in and for which it was produced. In appraising the monumental literary achievements of the age the underlying tensions and contradictions are not ignored. The critical discussions in this volume do full justice to the complexity and subtlety of the literature itself.

Table of Contents
1. Uncertainties E. J. Kenney
2. Theocritus and Virgil W. V. Clausen
3. The Georgics L. P. Wilkinson
4. The Aeneid R. Deryck Williams
5. Horace Niall Rudd
6. Love elegy Georg Luck
7. Ovid E. J. Kenney
8. Livy R. M. Ogilvie
9. Minor figures J. C. Bramble
Appendix of authors and works compiled by Martin Drury
Metrical appendix Martin Drury
Abbreviations
Index.

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 4, The Early Principate

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

ISBN-13: 9780521273725
ISBN-10: 0521273722
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 240
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 1982, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

Perfection is finality; finality is death'. The poets and prose writers of the first and early second centuries AD were not deterred by the towering stature of their Augustan predecessors from attempting new and often brilliant variations on the now traditional themes and genres. The so-called 'Silver' Age of Latin literature has tended to be characterized in terms of dismissive or question- begging stereotypes - 'decadent', 'rhetorical', 'baroque', 'mannerist' - as a substitute for close critical argument. From the sympathetic but searching appraisals in this volume the best writers of the age - Lucan, Seneca, Statius, Juvenal, Tacitus - emerge as men having something important to say and not merely technicians preoccupied with the most extravagant or paradoxical way of saying it. Complementary to these central figures as giving the age its special character and atmosphere are the minor poets, the satirists, the scholars and rhetoricians, the lesser historians, epistolographers and technical writers, whose varied activity provides the background to the main developments. The whole offers a detailed portrait of the literary interests of an age that was of necessity becoming increasingly more conscious of the past and of the problems of coping with its cultural heritage.

Table of Contents
1. Challenge and response D. W. T. C. Vessey
2. Persius Niall Rudd
3. The Younger Seneca C. J. Herington
4. Lucan J. C. Bramble
5. Flavian epic D. W. T. C. Vessey
6. Martial and Juvenal J. C. Bramble
7. Minor poetry F. R. D. Goodyear
8. Prose satire F. R. D. Goodyear
9. History and biography F. R. D. Goodyear
10. Technical writing F. R. D. Goodyear
11. Rhetoric and scholarship F. R. D. Goodyear
Abbreviations
Index.

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

ISBN-13: 9780521273718
ISBN-10: 0521273714
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1983
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Paper
Pages: 154
Book Condition: As New
Comments: First Published 1982, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

In the two centuries covered by this volume, from about AD 250 to 450, the Roman Empire suffered a period of chaos followed by drastic administrative and military reorganization. Simultaneously Christianity emerged as a new religious force, to be first recognized by Constantine and then eventually to become the official religion of the Roman state. The old pagan culture continued to provide the basis for education and the staple literary diet of the leisured classes; but it now had perforce to coexist and indeed to compete with a new, specifically Christian-oriented literature. These and associated developments are reflected in the Latin books of the period. Of the traditional forms and genres, some atrophied, some were transformed and invigorated; and yet others, such as autobiography in something like the modern sense, emerged in response to the pressures of the times. Professor Browning's masterly and comprehensive survey is mostly concerned with pagan literature, but takes into account Christian texts written in classical forms and directed at classically educated readers. The volume ends with a chapter on Apuleius by Professor Walsh, followed by a brief Epilogue from the same hand, sketching the part played by classical studies in the formation of the Latin literature of the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents
1. Introductory Robert Browning
2. Poetry Robert Browning
3. Biography Robert Browning
4. History Robert Browning
5. Oratory and epistolography Robert Browning
6. Learning and the past Robert Browning
7. Minor figures Robert Browning
8. Apuleius P. G. Walsh
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Index

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, The Early Republic & Part 2, The Late Republic & Part 3, The Age of Augustus & Part 4, The Early Principate & Part 5, The Later Principate

by: Kenney, E.J. Clausen, W.V.

• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983

Price: 169,00 EURO

1 copy in stock