Roman Poets of the Early Empire

Roman Poets of the Early Empire
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Publisher : Penguin Classics
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106009970614
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Synopsis Roman Poets of the Early Empire by : Anthony James Boyle

Roman Poets of the Early Empire

Roman Poets of the Early Empire
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Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 0140448861
ISBN-13 : 9780140448863
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Synopsis Roman Poets of the Early Empire by : A. J. Boyle

An anthology of poetry drawn from all of the genres practised during the early Roman Empire. The translations will include work by Ovid, Seneca, Persius, Lucan, Statius, Martial and Juvenal, as well as some of the most interesting work by minor poets of the period.

Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire

Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781108875554
ISBN-13 : 1108875556
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Synopsis Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire by : Hérica Valladares

Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Hérica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, in the second half of the first century BCE Roman poets, artists, and their audience became increasingly interested in describing, depicting, and visualizing the more sentimental aspects of amatory experience. During this period, we see two important and simultaneous developments: Latin love elegy crystallizes as a poetic genre, while a new style in Roman wall painting emerges. Valladares' book is the first to correlate these two phenomena properly, showing that they are deeply intertwined. Rather than postulating a direct correspondence between images and texts, she offers a series of mutually reinforcing readings of painting and poetry that ultimately locate the invention of a new romantic ideal within early imperial debates about domesticity and the role of citizens in Roman society.

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 2800
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ISBN-10 : 9783110912746
ISBN-13 : 3110912740
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Synopsis Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire by : John Flood

Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period. A supplementary Volume 5 of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook will be published in June 2019.

The Roman Poets of the Republic

The Roman Poets of the Republic
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Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0017455456
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Synopsis The Roman Poets of the Republic by : William Young Sellar

Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome

Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 391
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ISBN-10 : 9780191663123
ISBN-13 : 0191663123
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Synopsis Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome by : Luke Roman

In Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome, Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian interests. While scholars have often insisted that aesthetic autonomy is an exclusively modern concept and cannot be applied to other historical periods, the book argues that poets in ancient Rome employed a 'rhetoric of autonomy' to define their position within Roman society and establish the distinctive value of their work. This study of the Roman rhetoric of poetic autonomy includes an examination of poetic self-representation in first-person genres from the late republic to the early empire. Looking closely at the works of Lucilius, Catullus, Propertius, Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Ovid, Statius, Martial, and Juvenal, Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome affords fresh insight into ancient literary texts and reinvigorates the dialogue between ancient and modern aesthetics.

Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire

Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9789047430995
ISBN-13 : 9047430999
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire by : John Miller

This book, a sequel to Clio and the Poets (Brill 2002), takes as its point of departure Quintilian's statement that 'historiography is very close to the poets': it examines not only how verse interfaces with historical texts but also how first-century AD Roman historians engage with issues and patterns of thought central to contemporary poetry and with specific poetic texts. Included are substantive discussions of a wide range of authors, notably Lucan, Seneca, Statius, Pliny, Juvenal, Silius Italicus, and Tacitus.

The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age

The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age
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Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HW3Q7W
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Synopsis The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age by : William Young Sellar

Poetics of the First Punic War

Poetics of the First Punic War
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780472132133
ISBN-13 : 047213213X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetics of the First Punic War by : Thomas Biggs

Poetics of the First Punic War investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. From its original role in the Middle Republic as the narrative proving ground for epic’s development out of verse historiography, to its striking cultural reuse during the Augustan and Flavian periods, the First Punic War (264–241 BCE) holds an underappreciated place in the history of Latin literature. Because of the serendipitous meeting of historical content and poetic form in the third century BCE, a textualized First Punic War went on to shape the Latin language and its literary genres, the practices and politics of remembering war, popular visions of Rome as a cultural capital, and numerous influential conceptions of Punic North Africa. Poetics of the First Punic War combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various “texts” of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus. This book also contains sustained treatment of Naevius’ fragmentary Bellum Punicum (Punic War) and Livius Andronicus’ Odusia (Odyssey), some of the earliest works of Latin poetry. As the tradition’s primary Roman topic, the First Punic War is forever bound to these poems, which played a decisive role in transmitting an epic view of history.

Beyond Greek

Beyond Greek
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780674496040
ISBN-13 : 0674496043
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Greek by : Denis Feeney

A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist