Latin Literature: A History

Gian Biagio Conte

JHU Press, 19. nov. 1999 - 827 sider

The authoriatative history of Latin literature.

This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte.

Indhold

• Literary History and Historiography I: 1
• The Early and Middle Republics: 11
• PART: 21
• The Early Roman Theater: 29
• Livius Andronicus: 39
• Plautus: 49
• Caecilius Statius: 65
• Literature and Culture in the Period of the Conquests: 71
• Cato: 85
• Terence: 92
• Pacuvius and Accius: 104
• From Ennius to Virgil: 110
• Politics and Culture between the Era of the Gracchi and the Sullan: 118
• The Age of Caesar 7844 B C: 133
• Lucretius: 155
• The Study of Nature and the Serenity of Man: 163
• Cicero: 175
• Philology Biography and Antiquarianism at the End of: 209
• Literary and Philosophical Works: 215
• Cornelius Nepos: 221
• Caesar: 225
• Sallust: 234
• Characteristics of a Period: 249
• Virgil: 262
• Horace: 292
• Tibullus and Propertius: 321
• Civic Elegy: 335
• Ovid: 340
• Livy: 367
• Directions in Historiography: 377
• Scholarship and Technical Disciplines: 386
• From Its Beginnings to the Early Empire: 394
• The Literature of the Early Empire: 401
• Seneca: 408
• The Poetic Genres in the JulioClaudian Period: 426
• Lucan: 440
• Petronius: 453
• Persius and Juvenal: 467
• Epic in the Flavian Period: 481
• Pliny the Elder and Specialist Knowledge: 497
• Martial and the Epigram: 505
• Quintilian: 512
• The Age of the Adoptive Emperors: 519
• Pliny the Younger: 525
• Tacitus: 530
• Suetonius and the Minor Historians: 546
• Apuleius: 553
• Philology Rhetoric and Literary Criticism Law: 571
• From Constantine to the Sack of Rome 306410: 621
• The Historia Augusta: 650
• Bibliography: 671
• The Apogee of Christian Culture: 678
• Augustine and the Confessions: 688
• Other Fathers of the Church: 694
• Bibliography 726: 710
• Appendixes: 729
• Index of Names: 819

Om forfatteren

Gian Biagio Conte is a professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Bibliografiske oplysninger

• Titel: Latin Literature: A History; A Johns Hopkins Paperback; “A” Johns Hopkins paperback : Classics, Literature
• Forfatter: Gian Biagio Conte
• Redaktører: Don P. Fowler, Glen W. Most
• oversat af: Joseph Solodow
• Udgave: genoptrykt, revideret
• Udgiver: JHU Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0801862531, 9780801862533
• Længde: 827 sider