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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Andronicus' innovations may not themselves have been suffi— cient to win a following - Horace knew the poem only as a school text (Hor. Ep. 2.1.69-71) and Suetonius ignored it completely - but Naevius clearly saw possi— bilities in ...
Andronicus' innovations may not themselves have been suffi— cient to win a following - Horace knew the poem only as a school text (Hor. Ep. 2.1.69-71) and Suetonius ignored it completely - but Naevius clearly saw possi— bilities in ...
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later, Q. Lutatius Catulus, who became consul in 102, welcomed the poets Archias and Antipater of Sidon to his company and wrote Latin erotic epigrams in the Greek style. These instances are all well known and much discussed.
later, Q. Lutatius Catulus, who became consul in 102, welcomed the poets Archias and Antipater of Sidon to his company and wrote Latin erotic epigrams in the Greek style. These instances are all well known and much discussed.
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At the beginning of the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero supports his claim that Romans have equalled the achievements of Greek culture by pointing to the success of Latin poetry, which rivals the Greek despite its late start: Sero igitur ...
At the beginning of the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero supports his claim that Romans have equalled the achievements of Greek culture by pointing to the success of Latin poetry, which rivals the Greek despite its late start: Sero igitur ...
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Poetic art was not respected. ... 5 The Status of Poets: Lucilius The recuperation of poetry's reputation in the late second century was thus also the legacy of Crates, though the phenomenon is best illustrated from the late Republic, ...
Poetic art was not respected. ... 5 The Status of Poets: Lucilius The recuperation of poetry's reputation in the late second century was thus also the legacy of Crates, though the phenomenon is best illustrated from the late Republic, ...
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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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