The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, The Early Republic
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, The Early Republic PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Kenney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1983-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521273756 |
This volume analyses the process of creative adaptation which shaped the beginnings of Latin literature.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late Republic
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late Republic PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Kenney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1983-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521273749 |
This volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of profoundly important developments, with enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. Original and innovative in widely differing ways as was the work of Lucretius, Sallust and Caesar in particular, the scene is dominated, historically, by two figures: Cicero and Catullus. Cicero was a politician and a man of affairs as well as a man of latters, whose vast literary output reflects a range of intellectual interests unparalleled among surviving Roman writers; creator of a prose style the Quintilian regarded as synonymous with eloquence itself; and better known to us, from his letters, as a human being, than any other figure from classical antiquity. Catullus was a poet, single-mindedly devoted to fostering the tradition of learned Alexandrian poetry at Rome; the author of one slender volume of verse that has attracted more critical attention in proportion to its size than any other ancient poetry-book; and the lover of Lesbia. In these chapters it is shown how these, and other, Roman writers of genius continued the process of transforming their traditional Greek models into new and vigorous Latin forms, with lasting effects for oratory, historiography, and the higher genres of poetry.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Kenney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Classical drama |
ISBN | 9780521273725 |
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell Vernon Clausen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Classical drama |
ISBN | 9780521273718 |
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Kenney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1983-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521273718 |
In the two centuries covered by this volume, from about AD 250 to 450, the Roman Empire suffered a period of chaos followed by drastic administrative and military reorganization. Simultaneously Christianity emerged as a new religious force, to be first recognized by Constantine and then eventually to become the official religion of the Roman state. The old pagan culture continued to provide the basis for education and the staple literary diet of the leisured classes; but it now had perforce to coexist and indeed to compete with a new, specifically Christian-oriented literature. These and associated developments are reflected in the Latin books of the period. Of the traditional forms and genres, some atrophied, some were transformed and invigorated; and yet others, such as autobiography in something like the modern sense, emerged in response to the pressures of the times. Professor Browning's masterly and comprehensive survey is mostly concerned with pagan literature, but takes into account Christian texts written in classical forms and directed at classically educated readers. The volume ends with a chapter on Apuleius by Professor Walsh, followed by a brief Epilogue from the same hand, sketching the part played by classical studies in the formation of the Latin literature of the Middle Ages.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Kenney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1012 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Classical literature |
ISBN |
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate
Title | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Kenney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1983-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521273718 |
In the two centuries covered by this volume, from about AD 250 to 450, the Roman Empire suffered a period of chaos followed by drastic administrative and military reorganization. Simultaneously Christianity emerged as a new religious force, to be first recognized by Constantine and then eventually to become the official religion of the Roman state. The old pagan culture continued to provide the basis for education and the staple literary diet of the leisured classes; but it now had perforce to coexist and indeed to compete with a new, specifically Christian-oriented literature. These and associated developments are reflected in the Latin books of the period. Of the traditional forms and genres, some atrophied, some were transformed and invigorated; and yet others, such as autobiography in something like the modern sense, emerged in response to the pressures of the times. Professor Browning's masterly and comprehensive survey is mostly concerned with pagan literature, but takes into account Christian texts written in classical forms and directed at classically educated readers. The volume ends with a chapter on Apuleius by Professor Walsh, followed by a brief Epilogue from the same hand, sketching the part played by classical studies in the formation of the Latin literature of the Middle Ages.