Author: Hannah Čulík-Baird
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009033085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the late Roman Republic. Hannah Čulík-Baird studies Cicero's use of poetry in his letters, speeches, and philosophical works, contextualizing his practice within the broader intellectual trends of contemporary Rome. Cicero's quotations of the 'classic' Latin poets, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius, are responsible for preserving the most significant fragments of verse from the second century BCE. The book also therefore examines the process of fragmentation in classical antiquity, with particular attention to the relationship between quotation and fragmentation. The Appendices collect perceptible instances of poetic citation (Greek as well as Latin) in the Ciceronian corpus.
Author: Hannah Čulík-Baird
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California.
Author: Jackie Elliott
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004518274
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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This study offers an introduction to the fragmentary record of early Roman poetry. In focus are the contexts, practitioners, and reception of early Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire, along with the challenges which our evidence for these entails.
Author: Michael Wigodsky
Publisher:
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Category : Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: J. N. Adams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108751636
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.
Author: Gesine Manuwald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857735152
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thinking, it is perhaps for his political and oratorical career that Cicero is best remembered. He was the nemisis of Catiline, whose plot to overthrow the Republic he famously denounced to the Senate. He was the selfless politician who turned down the opportunity to join Julius Caesar and Pompey in their ruling triumvirate with Crassus. He was briefly Rome's leading man after Caesar's assassination in 44 BCE.And he was the great political orator whose bitter coflict with Mark Antony led to his own violent death in 43 BCE. In her authoritative survey, Gesine Manuwald evokes the many faces of Cicero as well as his complexities and seeming contradictions. She focuses on his major works, allowing the great writer to speak for himself. Cicero's rich legacy is seen to endure in the works of Quintilian and the Church Fathers as well as in the speeches of Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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This book argues there is much to admire in Cicero's translations from Homer, from Greek tragedy and especially from the "Phaenomena" of Aratus which influenced Virgil's use of that poem in the "Georgics."
Author: Edward Courtney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199265794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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To understand fully the development of Latin poetry, one has to consider not only the prominent figures whose works survive entire but also the writers known to us only in fragments, usually small, from quotations. The fragments of the non-dramatic poets have been collected by Baehrens, Morel,and Buchner, but only a few have ever received a commentary. This book revises the texts, taking advantage of much earlier work now largely forgotten, and provides the necessary interpretative and illustrative material. By building up, wherever possible, a picture of each writer, Professor Courtneyplaces them in relation to the development of Latin poetry and thus gathers together information at present widely scattered and not easy to locate. While omitting some material which does not contribute to the focus of the book, he adds some writers not usually included in this corpus -particularly Tiberianus, the so-called De Bello Actiaco and the minor works of Ennius.
Author: C. E. W. Steel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521509939
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Author: William Young Sellar
Publisher:
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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