A companion to Latin literature
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Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture. |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996683 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii, 450 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-443) and index. |
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9780470996683 0470996684 9781405161312 1405161310 1405137371 9781405137379 |
Index Number: | PA6004 |
CLC: | I106-62 |
Contents: | Introduction : constructing Latin literature / Stephen Harrison -- The early republic : the beginnings to 90 BC / Sander M. Goldberg -- The late republican/triumviral period, 90-40 BC / D.S. Levene -- The Augustan period, 40BC-AD 14 / Joseph Farrell -- The early empire, AD 14-68 / Roland Mayer -- The high empire, AD 69-200 / Bruce Gibson -- Narrative epic / Philip Hardie -- Didactic epic / Monica Gale -- Roman tragedy / Elaine Fantham -- Comedy, atellane farce and mime / Costas Panayotakis -- Pastoral / Stephen Heyworth -- Love elegy / Roy Gibson -- Satire / Llewelyn Morgan -- Lyric and iambic / Stephen Harrison -- Epigram / Lindsay C. Watson -- The novel / Stephen Harrison -- Dialogues and treatises / J.G.F. Powell -- Historiography and biography / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Oratory / D.H. Berry -- Epistolography / Catharine Edwards -- Decline and nostalgia / Stephen Harrison -- Art and text / Jaś Elsner -- The passions / Robert A. Kaster -- Sex and gender / A.M. Keith -- Friendship and patronage / David Konstan -- Romans and others / Yasmin Syed -- Marriage and family / Susan Treggiari -- Slavery and class / Thomas Habinek -- Centre and periphery / Alessandro Barchiesi. |