From poetry to history : selected papers /
This volume focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD. Most of the chapters represent close readings of individual poems or passages of text. The authors principally featured are Catullus, Horace, and especially Tacitus, but there are als...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English; occasional phrases in Latin; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume focuses on Latin poetry and historiography from the mid-first century BC to the early second century AD. Most of the chapters represent close readings of individual poems or passages of text. The authors principally featured are Catullus, Horace, and especially Tacitus, but there are also treatments of Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Augustus' Res Gestae, Velleius, and the younger Pliny. The volume includes four chapters not previously published, as well as an epilogue which discusses some of the issues raised. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 446 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-437) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780199608652 0199608652 9780191804649 0191804649 |