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Title A companion to Latin literature / edited by Stephen Harrison
Published Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 450 pages) : illustrations
Series Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
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
Summary ""Essay after essay conveys the excitement of research into the ancient world, showing that nothing is settled, that there are always new questions and new ideas. The essays are lively and provocative, making representative use of source material and enticing readers to enter into the debate themselves ... There is little to criticise in this volume ... This 'Companion' titillates the reader into thinking about Latin literature in excitingly new ways."" Scholia Reviews ""An invaluable source of assistance and instruction for students."" Reference Reviews ""I can warmly recommend this book,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-443) and index
Notes English
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Subject Latin literature -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Latin literature -- Themes, motives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Authors, Latin -- Biography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Authors, Latin -- Biography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Authors, Latin
Intellectual life
Latin literature
Latin literature -- Themes, motives
Literature
Literatur
Literaturgattung
Motiv
Letterkunde.
Latijn.
SUBJECT Rome -- Intellectual life -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Rome -- In literature -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Subject Rome (Empire)
Latein.
Genre/Form handbooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals
Handboeken (vorm)
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Harrison, S. J
LC no. 2004005855
ISBN 9780470996683
0470996684
9781405161312
1405161310
1405137371
9781405137379
0631235299
9780631235293
1782684735
9781782684732
1280198702
9781280198700
9786610198702
6610198705
0470707410
9780470707418