A Companion to Latin LiteratureStephen Harrison John Wiley & Sons, 15 apr 2008 - 472 pagina's A 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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... political and social controversies of his time. His manual on farming is our oldest intact example of Latin prose, but his greatest influence on Rome's literary development came through his history, the Origines. This was not Rome's ...
... political and social controversies of his time. His manual on farming is our oldest intact example of Latin prose, but his greatest influence on Rome's literary development came through his history, the Origines. This was not Rome's ...
Pagina 22
... political discourse new status and a new air of permanence. Cato thus set Roman history and Roman oratory on the road to becoming 'literature'. 4 Hellenism Greek nevertheless remained a potent force in literature as in life: even Cicero ...
... political discourse new status and a new air of permanence. Cato thus set Roman history and Roman oratory on the road to becoming 'literature'. 4 Hellenism Greek nevertheless remained a potent force in literature as in life: even Cicero ...
Pagina 24
... politics of praise, as some famous testimony of Cato confirms. At the beginning of the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero ... political advantage in the highly charged atmosphere ofthe late 180s (cf. Liv. 38.44, 39.4-6). The banquet songs ...
... politics of praise, as some famous testimony of Cato confirms. At the beginning of the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero ... political advantage in the highly charged atmosphere ofthe late 180s (cf. Liv. 38.44, 39.4-6). The banquet songs ...
Pagina 30
... Kenney and Clausen (1982: 162—71), see Coffey (1976: 35—62), and for the satirist's political and social background, Gruen (1993: 272—317). CHAPTER TWO The Late Republican / Triumviral Period: 90-40 BC 30 Sanoler M Golelherg.
... Kenney and Clausen (1982: 162—71), see Coffey (1976: 35—62), and for the satirist's political and social background, Gruen (1993: 272—317). CHAPTER TWO The Late Republican / Triumviral Period: 90-40 BC 30 Sanoler M Golelherg.
Pagina 31
... Political Campaigning) by Cicero's brother Quintus (unless this is a forgery of a later period, as some have argued). More than a tenth of the letters in the Ciceronian collection comprise letters written by other people to or about ...
... Political Campaigning) by Cicero's brother Quintus (unless this is a forgery of a later period, as some have argued). More than a tenth of the letters in the Ciceronian collection comprise letters written by other people to or about ...
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