Roman literary culture : from Plautus to Macrobius / Elaine Fantham.

Author/creator Fantham, Elaine
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
PublicationBaltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date©1996
Descriptionxx, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Rome.
Rome--Intellectual life.

SeriesAncient society and history
Ancient society and history. ^A230376
Contents 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
Contents 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
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-327) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2012035467
ISBN9781421408354 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN142140835X (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781421408361 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1421408368 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40022472636

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