Author: GOLDBERG, SANDER M.
Title: Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
Description: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hardcover. ISBN: 052185461X. Tiny stain to rear endpaper else book is fine. Light rubbing and shelfwear to DJ. ; How the Romans came to have a literature reflecting native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent generations have become central questions in the cultural history of the Republic. This book explores the development of Roman literary sensibility from early interest in epic and drama, through invention of satire and eventual enshrining of books in public collections important to Horace and Ovid. The "early" literature is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected and canonized. ; 262 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 052185461X Roman Republic Latin Literature Classical Greek & Roman Literary Criticism


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