Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-443) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : constructing Latin literature / Stephen Harrison -- The early republic : the beginnings to 90 BC / Sander M. Goldberg -- The late republican/triumviral period, 90-40 BC / D.S. Levene -- The Augustan period, 40BC-AD 14 / Joseph Farrell -- The early empire, AD 14-68 / Roland Mayer -- The high empire, AD 69-200 / Bruce Gibson -- Narrative epic / Philip Hardie -- Didactic epic / Monica Gale -- Roman tragedy / Elaine Fantham -- Comedy, atellane farce and mime / Costas Panayotakis -- Pastoral / Stephen Heyworth -- Love elegy / Roy Gibson -- Satire / Llewelyn Morgan -- Lyric and iambic / Stephen Harrison -- Epigram / Lindsay C. Watson -- The novel / Stephen Harrison -- Dialogues and treatises / J.G.F. Powell -- Historiography and biography / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Oratory / D.H. Berry -- Epistolography / Catharine Edwards -- Decline and nostalgia / Stephen Harrison -- Art and text / JasĖ Elsner -- The passions / Robert A. Kaster -- Sex and gender / A.M. Keith -- Friendship and patronage / David Konstan -- Romans and others / Yasmin Syed -- Marriage and family / Susan Treggiari -- Slavery and class / Thomas Habinek -- Centre and periphery / Alessandro Barchiesi.
Series:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
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