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Title:

A companion to Latin literature / edited by Stephen Harrison.

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xviii, 450 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Latin literature--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Latin literature--Themes, motives--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Authors, Latin--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Letterkunde.
Latijn.
Rome--Intellectual life--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Rome--In literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Other Authors:

Harrison, S. J.

Notes:

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 / Jaś 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

ISBN:

9780631235293
9780631235293 (alk. paper)
0631235299 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54753559
(OCoLC)58734632

LCCN:

2004005855

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)