Cambridge Hist of Classical Lit 2.3 - 9780521273732

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Title: The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Volume 2: Latin Literature, Part 3: The Age of Augustus

Author: Kenney, E J W V Clausen (eds)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Publication Date: 1983

Paperback; ISBN: 9780521273732

Volumes: 1; Pages: 239

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The sixty years between 43 B.C., when Cicero was assassinated, and A.D. 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.Contents1. Uncertainties E. J. Kenney2. Theocritus and Virgil W. V. Clausen3. The Georgics L. P. Wilkinson4. The Aeneid R. Deryck Williams5. Horace Niall Rudd6. Love elegy Georg Luck7. Ovid E. J. Kenney8. Livy R. M. Ogilvie9. Minor figures J. C. BrambleAppendix of authors and works compiled by Martin DruryMetrical appendix Martin DruryAbbreviationsIndex.

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