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Subject(s)

• Didactic literature, Latin—History and criticism [Browse]
• Education in literature [Browse]
• Rome—Intellectual life [Browse]

Editor

• Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. [Browse]
• Polt, Christopher B. [Browse]

Series

Routledge monographs in classical studies

Biographical/​Historical note

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is Associate Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University. He specializes in Latin poetry, especially the funny stuff: Roman comedy, Roman erotic elegy, Roman satire, and-if you believe him-the allegedly philosophical poet Lucretius. He is author of Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire (Michigan 2020), Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury 2021), and Masks (Tangent 2023). Christopher B. Polt is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston College. His research centers on Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, and he is the author of numerous articles on Roman comedy, ancient epic, and fable. He is the author of Catullus and Roman Comedy: Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic (Cambridge 2021).

Summary note

"This book collects new work on Latin didactic poetry and prose in the late Republic and early Empire, and it evaluates the varied, shifting roles that literature of teaching and learning played during this period. Instruction was of special interest in the culture and literature of the late Roman Republic and the Age of Augustus, as attitudes towards education found complex, fluid, and multivalent expressions. The era saw a didactic boom, a cottage industry whose surviving authors include Vergil, Lucretius, Ovid, Horace, Cicero, Varro, Germanicus, and Grattius, who are all reexamined here. The contributors to this volume bring fresh approaches to the study of educational literature from the end of the Roman Republic and early Empire, and their essays discover unexpected connections between familiar authors. Chapters explore, interrogate, and revise some aspect of our understanding of these generic and modal boundaries, while considering understudied points of contact between art and education, poetry and prose, and literature and philosophy, among others. Altogether, the volume shows how lively, experimental, and intertextual the didactic ethos of this period is, and how deeply it engages with social, political, and philosophical questions that are of critical importance to contemporary Rome and of enduring interest into the modern world. Didactic Literature in the Roman World is of interest to students and scholars of Latin literature, particularly the late Republic and early Empire, and of Classics more broadly. In addition, the volume's focus on didactic poetry and prose appeals to those working on literature outside of Classics and on intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN

• 1000922731 ((electronic bk. : PDF))
• 1000922774 ((electronic bk. : EPUB))
• 1003378056
• 9781000922738 ((electronic bk. : PDF))
• 9781000922776 ((electronic bk. : EPUB))
• 9781003378051 ((ebook))

LCCN

2023008600

OCLC

1381679068

Doi

• 10.4324/9781003378051

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