Early Latin Poetry

Author : Gabriel Nocchi Macedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472132393

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Ancient Latin Poetry Books by Gabriel Nocchi Macedo Pdf

Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, and to be transmitted from one period in time to another, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were different from one another, and each individual book or manuscript has its own history. The oldest of these books, those that are the closest to the time in which the texts were composed, are few, usually damaged, and have been often neglected in the scholarship. Ancient Latin Poetry Books presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts still extant that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. Analyzing their physical characteristics, their script, and the historical contexts in which they were produced and used, this volume shows how manuscripts can help us gain a better understanding of the history of texts, as well as of reading habits over the centuries. Since the manuscripts originated in various places of the Latin-speaking world, Ancient Latin Poetry Books investigates the readership and reception of Latin poetry in many different contexts, such schools in the Egyptian desert, aristocratic circles in southern Italy, and the Christian élite in late antique Rome. The research also contributes to our knowledge about the use of writing and the importance of the written text in antiquity. This is an innovative approach to the study of ancient literature, one that takes the materiality of texts into consideration.

Author : Jackie Elliott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004518278

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Early Latin Poetry by Jackie Elliott Pdf

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 : Roland Mayer,James Noel Adams
Publisher : British Academy
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0197261787

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Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry by Roland Mayer,James Noel Adams Pdf

Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g. alliteration, lexical and morphological archaism or grecism, and of course metaphor and word-order; and there were also less obvious resources in the technical vocabularies of law, philosophy, and medicine. The essays in this volume show how the poets in the classical period combined these elements, and so created a poetic medium that could comprehend satire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epics. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin.

Author : Michael Wigodsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106001549630

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Vergil and Early Latin Poetry by Michael Wigodsky Pdf

Author : Carolinne White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134660698

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Early Christian Latin Poets by Carolinne White Pdf

Christian Latin poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries was hugely influential on English and French medieval literature. In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical context, including translations of over thirty poems and excerpts, many never translated into English before.

Author : William Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199657865

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How to Read a Latin Poem by William Fitzgerald Pdf

This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.

Author : Jackie Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107244900

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Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales by Jackie Elliott Pdf

Ennius' Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius' epic and in modern scholarship, of the accounts of the Annales with which we operate today. A series of appendices detail each source's contribution to our record of the poem, and are used to consider how the interests and working methods of the principal sources shape the modern view of the poem and to re-examine the limits imposed and the possibilities offered by this ancient evidence. Dr Elliott challenges standard views of the poem, such as its use of time and the disposition of the gods within it. She argues that the manifest impact of the Annales on the collective Roman psyche results from its innovative promotion of a vision of Rome as the primary focus of the cosmos in all its aspects.

Author : Janet Lembke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520333130

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Bronze and Iron by Janet Lembke Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Author : Hannah Čulík-Baird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516089

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Cicero and the Early Latin Poets by Hannah Čulík-Baird Pdf

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California.

Author : H. W. Flewett,William Edward Pinder Pantin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Latin language
ISBN : UOM:39015020730118

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A First Book of Latin Poetry by H. W. Flewett,William Edward Pinder Pantin Pdf

Author : Paul White
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004548077

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Early Modern Latin Love Poetry by Paul White Pdf

This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.

Author : Edward Courtney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199265798

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The Fragmentary Latin Poets by Edward Courtney Pdf

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 : Prof. Philip Hardie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520968424

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Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry by Prof. Philip Hardie Pdf

After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome’s imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the "cosmic sense" of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HW24A7

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Selections from Latin Poets by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Biggs
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132133

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Poetics of the First Punic War by Thomas Biggs Pdf

Poetics of the First Punic War investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. From its original role in the Middle Republic as the narrative proving ground for epic’s development out of verse historiography, to its striking cultural reuse during the Augustan and Flavian periods, the First Punic War (264–241 BCE) holds an underappreciated place in the history of Latin literature. Because of the serendipitous meeting of historical content and poetic form in the third century BCE, a textualized First Punic War went on to shape the Latin language and its literary genres, the practices and politics of remembering war, popular visions of Rome as a cultural capital, and numerous influential conceptions of Punic North Africa. Poetics of the First Punic War combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various “texts” of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus. This book also contains sustained treatment of Naevius’ fragmentary Bellum Punicum (Punic War) and Livius Andronicus’ Odusia (Odyssey), some of the earliest works of Latin poetry. As the tradition’s primary Roman topic, the First Punic War is forever bound to these poems, which played a decisive role in transmitting an epic view of history.