Latin literature from Seneca to Juvenal : a critical study
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Latin literature from Seneca to Juvenal : a critical study
Clarendon Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [327]-350
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores central aspects of the period in Latin literature often depreciatingly termed 'Silver'. It is unusual in embracing both poetry and prose, and in offering close literary discussion of a large number of particular passages. It is not a history, but a selective and comparative study-throwing fresh light on the period as a whole, on individual authors, and on differences and affinities between genres. Most space is given to epic and tragedy, and to
the prose of Seneca and Tacitus; but Juvenal, Martial, the Younger Pliny, and other authors are also treated. The book also considers large features of genre and relates these to fundamental elements of style and to the treatment of some vital themes. It aims to give the reader a feeling for this
brilliant, and extraordinary writing, and a sense of the excitement and fascination of the literary period. All Latin in the text is translated.
Table of Contents
- List of authors and emperors
- Introduction
- Conceptions of genre: Criticisms in prose, 'lower' poetry
- Genre and philosophy, history, and high poetry
- Wit
- Extravagance
- Structure and cohesion
- The gods in mythological poetry
- The gods in prose and in Lucan
- Death in prose
- Death in high poetry
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of passages discussed.
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