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The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 5 The Later Principate
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 5 The Later Principate written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
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 Part 5 The Later Principate
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 5 The Later Principate written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
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 Part 5 The Later Principate
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 5 The Later Principate written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
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 Part 2 The Late Republic
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 2 The Late Republic written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
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 1 The Early Republic
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 1 The Early Republic written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
This volume analyses the process of creative adaptation which shaped the beginnings of Latin literature.
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature
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Author : Wendell Vernon Clausen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature written by Wendell Vernon Clausen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Classical drama categories.
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1982-03-18
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-03-18 with History categories.
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 2 Latin Literature Part 3 The Age Of Augustus
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 3 The Age Of Augustus written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
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.
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Classical drama categories.
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 3 The Age Of Augustus
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Author : E. J. Kenney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-07-14
The Cambridge History Of Classical Literature Volume 2 Latin Literature Part 3 The Age Of Augustus written by E. J. Kenney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-14 with History categories.
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.