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845449
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Fantham, Elaine
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Roman literary culture : : from Plautus to Macrobius /\ Elaine Fantham.
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| Edition Statement
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Second edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: The Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2013.
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, ©1996
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| Series Statement
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Ancient society and history
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xx, 338 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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142140835X
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: 1421408368
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: 9781421408354
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: 9781421408361
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1421409275
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9781421409276
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index.
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| Contents
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Eight. Literary culture in decline: the Antonine years ; Hadrian, the Philhellene ; The traveling sophists ; The provinces and Latin culture ; Marcus Aurelius and his teachers ; Aulus Gellius, the eternal student in Rome and Greece ; Apuleius, the ultimate word artist -- Nine. Classical literary culture and the impact of christianity ; Tertullian and his successors ; Diocletian and a generation of political change ; Ausonius ; The controversy over the Altar of victory: Symmachus and Prudentius ; Claudian ; The maturity of christian prose: Jerome and Augustine ; Macrobius: the last celebrant of secular literary culture.
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Five. An inhibited generation: suppression and survival ; Permissible literature: prose ; Moral treatises and letters ; Didactic and descriptive poetry ; The tastes and prejudices of Augustus's imperial successors ; The divergence of theater and drama -- Six. Between Nero and Domitian: the challenge to poetry ; The Neronian revival ; Poetry and parody in a new setting ; Vicissitudes of the epic muse ; Professional poets in the time of Domitian -- Seven. Literature and the governing classes: from the accession of Vespasian to the death of Trajan ; Equestrian and senatorial writers: a changing elite ; Choices of literary career: fame or survival? ; Pliny's letters and his literary world ; The public world of the senator and orator ; The world of the auditorium.
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Introduction. Toward a social history of Latin literature ; Author, audience, and medium ; Ennius and Cato, two early writers ; New genres of literature, from Lucilius to Apuleius ; Generic preoccupations -- One. Starting from scratch ; Drama -- the first literary genre ; Comedy: Naevius, Plautus, and Terence ; The tragic tradition ; Patriotism and history in poetry and prose ; The first Latin history: Cato's Origines ; From the Gracchi to Sulla: Lucilian satire and the new individualism ; Catullus and Lucretius -- Two. Rome at the end of the Republic ; Roman education, for better or worse ; Literature and nationalism ; Literature and the amateur ; Literary studies and the recreation of literary history ; Literature and scholarship: Cicero's evidence for the studies of Caesar and Varro -- Three. The coming of the principate: "Augustan" literary culture ; Two survivors: the new poets Gallus and Virgil ; The Roman poetry book, a new literary form ; Private and public patronage ; The emperor as theme and patron ; The best of patrons, and the patron's greater friend ; Performance and readership ; Spoken and written prose in Augustan society: rhetoric as training and display ; The first real histories -- Four. Un-Augustan activities ; The literature of youth ; Love and elegy ; Ovid the scapegoat, and the sorrows of Augustus ; Innocence and power of the book.
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| Abstract
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Added chapters in this edition extend the time of coverage both forward and backward, though the bulk of the bulk still covers Latin literature from 50 BCE to 150 CE.
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Macrobius,eerste helft 5e E.
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Plautus, T. Maccius,ca. 244-184 v. Chr.
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Latin literature-- History and criticism.
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Literature and history-- Rome.
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18.46 ancient Latin literature.
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Intellectual life.
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Latein
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Latin literature.
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Literarisches Leben
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Literatur
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Literature and history.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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Bellettrie.
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Latijn.
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Leesgewoonten.
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Publiek.
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Rome, Intellectual life.
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Rome (Empire)
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Romeinse rijk.
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Römisches Reich
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| Dewey Classification
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870.9/001
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| LC Classification
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PA6003.F36 2013
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18.46bcl
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