Constructing Literature in the Roman RepublicCambridge University Press, 2005 M11 7 - 249 páginas Becoming Roman Literature examines the problem of Rome's literary development by shifting attention from Rome's writers to its readers. The literature we traditionally call "early " is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected, canonized, and put to new social and artistic uses. Imposing on texts the name and function of literature was thus often a retrospective activity. This book explores the development of this literary sensibility from the Romans' early interest in epic and drama, through the invention of satire and the eventual enshrining of books in the public collections that became so important to Horace and Ovid. |
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... called carmina convivalia on which , in the early nine- teenth century , the historian B. G. Niebuhr based his famous theory of heroic lays . Niebuhr found in this testimony hints of a lost tradition of ballads , which passed from ...
... called carmina convivalia on which , in the early nine- teenth century , the historian B. G. Niebuhr based his famous theory of heroic lays . Niebuhr found in this testimony hints of a lost tradition of ballads , which passed from ...
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... called musical medleys ( “ impletae modis saturae " ) may yet help us explain how Andronicus could find actors in third - century Rome equal to the task of performing his new Latin scripts , but good luck and great effort will be needed ...
... called musical medleys ( “ impletae modis saturae " ) may yet help us explain how Andronicus could find actors in third - century Rome equal to the task of performing his new Latin scripts , but good luck and great effort will be needed ...
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... called upon to witness : Sero igitur a nostris poetae vel cogniti vel recepti . quamquam est in Originibus solitos esse in epulis canere convivas ad tibicinem de clarorum hominum virtutibus , honorem tamen huic generi non fuisse ...
... called upon to witness : Sero igitur a nostris poetae vel cogniti vel recepti . quamquam est in Originibus solitos esse in epulis canere convivas ad tibicinem de clarorum hominum virtutibus , honorem tamen huic generi non fuisse ...
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... called a ' grassator ' . " Grassator , ' vagabond ' or ' bandit ' in common usage , is often given a more specific sense here with the help of Festus , who glosses grassari , the verb behind the noun , as ' to flatter . ' This would ...
... called a ' grassator ' . " Grassator , ' vagabond ' or ' bandit ' in common usage , is often given a more specific sense here with the help of Festus , who glosses grassari , the verb behind the noun , as ' to flatter . ' This would ...
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... called flatterers . Cato may have liked that state of affairs no more than he liked the price of fish from Pontus , but the confirmation of Cicero's argument that poetry came late to the maiores also confirms its status in Cato's time ...
... called flatterers . Cato may have liked that state of affairs no more than he liked the price of fish from Pontus , but the confirmation of Cicero's argument that poetry came late to the maiores also confirms its status in Cato's time ...
Contenido
The Muse Arrives | 20 |
Constructing Literature | 52 |
Comedy at Work | 87 |
Didos Furies | 115 |
Enter Satire | 144 |
Roman Helicon | 178 |
Retrospective | 204 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index of Passages Discussed | 241 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Accius actors aediles Aelius Aeneas Aeneid Albucius allusion Andronicus Annales archaic aristocratic atque audiences Augustus Barchiesi Brut Caecilius canon carmina Cato Cato's Catullus Choerilus Cicero claim Clodius comedy comic contemporary context Courtney cultural didascaliae discussion drama echo Ennian Ennius epic Eunuchus Euripides eventually evidence example famous Fantham first-century Gell genre Goldberg Greek Gruen Homer Horace Horace's language late Republic later Latin Licinus literary history literature Livius Andronicus Lucilius Lucretius ludi Romani ludi scaenici mime Naevius neque original Ovid Ovid's Pacuvius Palatine palliata passage Pentheus performance Phormio Plautine Plautus plays poem poetic poetry poets Pro Caelio problematic Pseudolus quae quam Quinctius Quint quod quoted readers reading recall reference Republican Roman literary Rome Rome's Roscius satire scripts second century significant Skutsch social speech stage story style Suet Suetonius suggests Terence Terence's texts theater tradition tragedy tragic Tusc Varro Vergil's verse Zorzetti
Pasajes populares
Página 3 - Utinam exstarent ilia carmina, quae, multis saeculis ante suam aetatem, in epulis esse cantitata a singulis convivis de clarorum virorum laudibus, in Originibus scriptum reliquit Cato.
Página 13 - Praeterea ex eodem libro Catonis haec etiam sparsim et intercise commeminimus: «Vestiri — inquit — in foro honeste mos erat, domi quod satis erat. Equos carius quam coquos emebant. Poeticae artis honos non erat; si quis in ea re studebat aut sese ad convivia adplicabat, crassator vocabatur»4. [6] lila quoque ex eodem libro praeclarae veritatis sententia est: «Nam vita — inquit — humana prope uti ferrum est: si exerceas, conteritur; si non exerceas, tamen robigo interficit.
Referencias a este libro
Talking Books : Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry: Readings ... G. O. Hutchinson Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |