The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 3, The Age of Augustus Paperback: 002 - Tapa blanda

Kenney, E. J.

 
9780521273732: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 3, The Age of Augustus Paperback: 002
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ISBN 10: 0521273730 ISBN 13: 9780521273732
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Sinopsis

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.

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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.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
1983
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ISBN 10 
0521273730
ISBN 13 
9780521273732
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Número de páginas
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9780521273749: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late Republic Paperback: 002

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ISBN 10:  0521273749 ISBN 13:  9780521273749
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 1983
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