Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This volume analyses the process of creative adaptation which shaped the beginnings of Latin literature.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 1, The Early Republic
Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This volume analyses the process of creative adaptation which shaped the beginnings of Latin literature.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late Republic
Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This volume covers the first three-quarters of the first century BC; an age which had enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. The scene was dominated by two figures: Cicero and Catallus. This book shows how these and other Roman writers helped transform their traditional Greek models into new, vigorous Latin forms.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate
Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In the two centuries covered by this volume, from about AD 250 to 450, the Roman Empire suffered a period of chaos followed by drastic administrative and military reorganization. Simultaneously Christianity emerged as a new religious force, to be first recognized by Constantine and then eventually to become the official religion of the Roman state. The old pagan culture continued to provide the basis for education and the staple literary diet of the leisured classes; but it now had perforce to coexist and indeed to compete with a new, specifically Christian-oriented literature. These and associated developments are reflected in the Latin books of the period. Of the traditional forms and genres, some atrophied, some were transformed and invigorated; and yet others, such as autobiography in something like the modern sense, emerged in response to the pressures of the times. Professor Browning's masterly and comprehensive survey is mostly concerned with pagan literature, but takes into account Christian texts written in classical forms and directed at classically educated readers. The volume ends with a chapter on Apuleius by Professor Walsh, followed by a brief Epilogue from the same hand, sketching the part played by classical studies in the formation of the Latin literature of the Middle Ages.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature
Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521210430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature
Author: P. E. EasterlingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521210423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Author: Wendell Vernon ClausenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273718
Category : Classical drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521210430
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
Author: Marianne McDonaldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827251
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
Author: Brian J. WrightPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506438490
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns the premise that communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE by examining evidence for its practice in the first century.
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 3, The Age of Augustus
Author: E. J. KenneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521273732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The sixty years between 43 BC, when Cicero was assassinated, and AD 17, when Ovid died in exile and disgrace, saw an unexampled explosion of literary creativity in Rome. Fresh ground was broken in almost every existing genre, and a new kind of specifically Roman poetry, the personal love-elegy, was born, flourished, and succumbed to its own success. Latin literature now became, in the familiar modern sense of the word, classical: a balanced fusion of what was best and most stimulating in earlier Greek and Roman writing, charged with new and original life by the individual genius of, most particularly, Virgil, Horace and Ovid. Augustan literature, conventionally viewed as the expression in writing of the age itself - political and social stability reflected in artistic equilibrium - turns out on a close and critical reading to have been subject to the same stresses and strains as the society in and for which it was produced. In appraising the monumental literary achievements of the age the underlying tensions and contradictions are not ignored. The critical discussions in this volume do full justice to the complexity and subtlety of the literature itself.