Harrison A Companion to Latin Literature

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3737-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritativeaccount of Latin literature from its beginnings in the thirdcentury BC through to the end of the second century AD.
* * Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literaryhistory, major genres, and key themes
* Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, fromEnnius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy,Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius
* Includes invaluable reference material - dictionaryentries on authors, chronological chart of political and literaryhistory, and an annotated bibliography
* Serves as both a discursive literary history and a generalreference book

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Chronological Table ix
Notes on Contributors xii
Preface xvi
Reference Works: Abbreviations xvii
Introduction: Constructing Latin Literature 1
Stephen Harrison
PART I PERIODS 13
1 The Early Republic: the Beginnings to 90 BC 15
Sander M. Goldberg
2 The Late Republican/Triumviral Period: 90-40 BC 31
D. S. Levene
3 The Augustan Period: 40 BC-AD 14 44
Joseph Farrell
4 The Early Empire: AD 14-68 58
Roland Mayer
5 The High Empire: AD 69-200 69
Bruce Gibson
PART II GENRES 81
6 Narrative Epic 83
Philip Hardie
7 Didactic Epic 101
Monica Gale
8 Roman Tragedy 116
Elaine Fantham
9 Comedy, Atellane Farce and Mime 130
Costas Panayotakis
10 Pastoral 148
Stephen Heyworth
11 Love Elegy 159
Roy Gibson
12 Satire 174
Llewelyn Morgan
13 Lyric and Iambic 189
Stephen Harrison
14 Epigram 201
Lindsay C. Watson
15 The Novel 213
Stephen Harrison
16 Dialogues and Treatises 223
J. G. F. Powell
17 Historiography and Biography 241
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
18 Oratory 257
D. H. Berry
19 Epistolography 270
Catharine Edwards
PART III THEMES 285
20 Decline and Nostalgia 287
Stephen Harrison
21 Art and Text 300
Jas´ Elsner
22 The Passions 319
Robert A. Kaster
23 Sex and Gender 331
A. M. Keith
24 Friendship and Patronage 345
David Konstan
25 Romans and Others 360
Yasmin Syed
26 Marriage and Family 372
Susan Treggiari
27 Slavery and Class 385
Thomas Habinek
28 Centre and Periphery 394
Alessandro Barchiesi
Bibliography 406
Index 444

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His recent publications include Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (2000), Apuleius: Rhetorical Works (ed. 2001) and Texts, Ideas and the Classics (ed. 2001).