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Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052185461X
ISBN13: 9780521854610
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 7 2005
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.87 Width: 7.52 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
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.

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