Latin literature : a history
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Latin literature : a history
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 c1994
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Letteratura latina : manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano
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Letteratura latina
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Translation of: Letteratura latina : manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano. c1987
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades. From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Literary History and Historiography
Part 1: The Early and Middle Republics
Part 2: The Late Republic
Part 3: The Age of Augustus
Part 4: The Early Empire
Part 5: The Late Empire
Appendixes
Index of names
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