Understanding Latin Literature

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Routledge, Apr 27, 2017 - History - 238 pages

Understanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second edition is heavily revised to reflect recent developments in scholarship, especially in the area of the later reception and reverberations of Latin literature. Chapters are dedicated to Latin writers such as Virgil and Livy and explore how literature related to Roman identity and society. Readers are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts and through understanding the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture. The versatile and accessible structure of Understanding Latin Literature makes it suitable for both individual and class use.

 

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Contents
masculinity
p viii
living death and living slavery
Writing real lives
Literary texture and intertextuality
Metapoetics
Allegory
constructing Roman
Authors and texts
Translations used or adapted
Index of passages

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About the author (2017)

Susanna Morton Braund is Professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia, Canada and holder of a Killam Research Fellowship. She taught previously at Stanford University and Yale University in the USA, and at the Universities of London, Bristol and Exeter in the UK. She has published extensively on Roman satire and epic and has translated Lucan’s Civil War, the Satires of Persius and Juvenal, and Seneca's De Clementia, Agamemnon, Oedipus and Phoenician Women. She is currently working on a major project on the reception of Virgil's poems in later eras as manifested in translation history.

Bibliographic information

TitleUnderstanding Latin Literature
AuthorSusanna Morton Braund
Edition2
PublisherRoutledge, 2017
ISBN131724026X, 9781317240266
Length238 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Ancient / General
Literary Collections / General
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
  
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