Ancient Latin Poetry Books

Ancient Latin Poetry Books
Title Ancient Latin Poetry Books PDF eBook
Author Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 2021-06-21
Genre
ISBN 9780472132393

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Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, and to be transmitted from one period in time to another, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were different from one another, and each individual book or manuscript has its own history. The oldest of these books, those that are the closest to the time in which the texts were composed, are few, usually damaged, and have been often neglected in the scholarship. Ancient Latin Poetry Books presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts still extant that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. Analyzing their physical characteristics, their script, and the historical contexts in which they were produced and used, this volume shows how manuscripts can help us gain a better understanding of the history of texts, as well as of reading habits over the centuries. Since the manuscripts originated in various places of the Latin-speaking world, Ancient Latin Poetry Books investigates the readership and reception of Latin poetry in many different contexts, such schools in the Egyptian desert, aristocratic circles in southern Italy, and the Christian élite in late antique Rome. The research also contributes to our knowledge about the use of writing and the importance of the written text in antiquity. This is an innovative approach to the study of ancient literature, one that takes the materiality of texts into consideration.

Early Christian Latin Poets

Early Christian Latin Poets
Title Early Christian Latin Poets PDF eBook
Author Carolinne White
Publisher Routledge
Pages 216
Release 2002-01-04
Genre History
ISBN 1134660693

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Christian Latin poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries was hugely influential on English and French medieval literature. In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical context, including translations of over thirty poems and excerpts, many never translated into English before.

Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales

Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales
Title Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales PDF eBook
Author Jackie Elliott
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 605
Release 2013-11-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107244900

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Ennius' Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius' epic and in modern scholarship, of the accounts of the Annales with which we operate today. A series of appendices detail each source's contribution to our record of the poem, and are used to consider how the interests and working methods of the principal sources shape the modern view of the poem and to re-examine the limits imposed and the possibilities offered by this ancient evidence. Dr Elliott challenges standard views of the poem, such as its use of time and the disposition of the gods within it. She argues that the manifest impact of the Annales on the collective Roman psyche results from its innovative promotion of a vision of Rome as the primary focus of the cosmos in all its aspects.

How to Read a Latin Poem

How to Read a Latin Poem
Title How to Read a Latin Poem PDF eBook
Author William Fitzgerald
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 289
Release 2013-02-21
Genre History
ISBN 0199657866

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This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry

The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry
Title The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry PDF eBook
Author Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher
Pages 603
Release 2009
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0195124545

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The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.

Early Latin Poetry

Early Latin Poetry
Title Early Latin Poetry PDF eBook
Author Jackie Elliott
Publisher BRILL
Pages 137
Release 2022-04-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004518274

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This study offers an introduction to the fragmentary record of early Roman poetry. In focus are the contexts, practitioners, and reception of early Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire, along with the challenges which our evidence for these entails.

Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry

Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry
Title Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry PDF eBook
Author Prof. Philip Hardie
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 304
Release 2019-08-27
Genre Religion
ISBN 0520968425

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After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome’s imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the "cosmic sense" of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity.