Latin literature : a history / Gian Biago Conte ; translated by Joseph B. Solodow ; revised by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most.

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Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition.
Published/​Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
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xxxiii, 827 pages ; 26 cm

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      Notes
      Translation of: Letteratura Latina.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Part 1: The Early and Middle Republics. The Origins
      • The Early Roman Theater
      • Livius Andronicus
      • Naevius
      • Plautus
      • Caecilius Statius
      • Oratory and Histriography in the Archaic Period
      • Literature and Culture in the Period of the Conquests
      • Ennius
      • Cato
      • Terence
      • The Development of Tragedy: Pacuvius and Accius
      • The Development of Epic Poetry: From Ennius to Virgil
      • Lucilius
      • Politics and Culture between the Era of the Gracchi and the Sullan Restoration
      • Part 2: The Late Republic. The Age of Caesar
      • Neoteric Poetry and Carullus
      • Lucretius
      • Cicero
      • Philology, Biography, and Antiquarianism at the End of the Republic
      • Caesar
      • Sallust
      • Part 3: The Age of Augustus. 43 B.C.-A.D. 17: Characteristics of a Period
      • Virgil
      • Horace
      • Elegy: Tibullus and Propertius
      • Ovid
      • Livy
      • Directions in Histriography
      • Scholarship and Technical Disciplines
      • Legal Literature: From Its Beginnings to the Early Empire
      • Part 4: The Early Empire. Culture and Spectacle: The Literature of the Early Empire
      • Seneca
      • The Poetic Genres in the Julio-Claudian Period
      • Lucan
      • Petronius
      • Satire Under the Principate: Persius and Juvenal
      • Epic in the Flauvian Period
      • Pliny the Elder and Specialist Knowledge
      • martial and the Epigram
      • Quintilian
      • The Age of the Adoptive Emperor
      • Pliny the Younger
      • Tacitus
      • Suetonius and the Minor Historians
      • Apuleius
      • Philology, Rhetoric and Literary Criticism, Law
      • Developments in Poetry: The Poetae Novelli
      • Part 5: The Late Empire. From the Severans to Diocletian
      • From Constantine to the Sack of Rome
      • The Apogee of Christian Culture
      • From Honorius to Odoacer
      • The Dawn of the Middle Ages
      ISBN
      • 0801862531 ((paperback))
      • 9780801862533 ((paperback))
      OCLC
      46990129
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