A Companion to Latin LiteratureA Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD.
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1 The Beginnings By the early first century BC the Romans had a literature. And they knew it. When Cicero (with some irony) taunts the freedman Erucius as a stranger 'not even to litterae' (ne a litteris quidem: S. Rosc.
1 The Beginnings By the early first century BC the Romans had a literature. And they knew it. When Cicero (with some irony) taunts the freedman Erucius as a stranger 'not even to litterae' (ne a litteris quidem: S. Rosc.
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The notoriously obscure account of its origin in Livy (7.2), who says that Andronicus was the first to add plots to ... Rome of the third century was unlike Athens of the fifth, where drama's role in civic and religious life bestowed ...
The notoriously obscure account of its origin in Livy (7.2), who says that Andronicus was the first to add plots to ... Rome of the third century was unlike Athens of the fifth, where drama's role in civic and religious life bestowed ...
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... in the second century AD, looked into the question, he could trace a disciplined interest in texts back only to the early 160s, when the Greek scholar Crates of Mallos came to Rome ... Epic was the genre that first caught their eye.
... in the second century AD, looked into the question, he could trace a disciplined interest in texts back only to the early 160s, when the Greek scholar Crates of Mallos came to Rome ... Epic was the genre that first caught their eye.
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This was not Rome's first historical narrative. By the end of the third century, the great deeds that were informing the Roman epic tradition Were also being recorded in prose, and the first historians were not socially marginal figures ...
This was not Rome's first historical narrative. By the end of the third century, the great deeds that were informing the Roman epic tradition Were also being recorded in prose, and the first historians were not socially marginal figures ...
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The growing acceptability of poetry in the later second century was further encouraged by a narrowing of the gap between poetry's writers and its readers. The first poets were outsiders to the society whose literature they created.
The growing acceptability of poetry in the later second century was further encouraged by a narrowing of the gap between poetry's writers and its readers. The first poets were outsiders to the society whose literature they created.
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| Titel | A Companion to Latin Literature Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World |
| Redacteur | Stephen Harrison |
| Editie | geannoteerd |
| Uitgever | John Wiley & Sons, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1405137371, 9781405137379 |
| Lengte | 472 pagina's |
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