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Contents
The poet and politics | 52 |
The dominance of Greek culture | 102 |
Authoritarianism and irrationality | 153 |
Emperorworship as a literary theme | 159 |
Some consequences of the terror | 169 |
Cruelty and the exploitation of weakness | 184 |
Brevity and expansiveness | 213 |
Genre and personality | 232 |
The cult of the episode | 246 |
Readymade poetic ideas | 254 |
Rhetoric | 266 |
Literature and society | 272 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire Volume 45 of Sather classical lectures |
| Authors | Gordon Williams, Gordon M. Williams, Gordon Willis Williams |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0520033337, 9780520033337 |
| Length | 344 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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