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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Her publications include The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 1993) and Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City (Cambridge, 1996), as well as several articles on Seneca's Letters. Ias Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior ...
Her publications include The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 1993) and Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City (Cambridge, 1996), as well as several articles on Seneca's Letters. Ias Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior ...
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Ep. 2.1.69-71) and Suetonius ignored it completely - but Naevius clearly saw possi— bilities in Andronicus' approach to the challenge of writing epic in Latin. His Bellum Punicum, the first original Roman epic and the first poem ...
Ep. 2.1.69-71) and Suetonius ignored it completely - but Naevius clearly saw possi— bilities in Andronicus' approach to the challenge of writing epic in Latin. His Bellum Punicum, the first original Roman epic and the first poem ...
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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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It took the joint effort of writers and men of letters to ensure that by the time of Sulla there was an ample stock of texts to read, to value, and to call by the name of literature. FURTHER READING The best author—centred histories of ...
It took the joint effort of writers and men of letters to ensure that by the time of Sulla there was an ample stock of texts to read, to value, and to call by the name of literature. FURTHER READING The best author—centred histories of ...
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