Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal: A Critical StudyClarendon Press, 1993 - 368 pàgines This book explores central aspects of the period in Latin literature often depreciatingly termed 'Silver'. It is unusual in embracing both poetry and prose, and in offering close literary discussion of a large number of particular passages. It is not a history, but a selective and comparative study; it throws fresh light on the period as a whole, on individual authors, and on differences and affinities between genres. Most space is given to epic and tragedy, and to the prose of Seneca and Tacitus; but Juvenal, Martial, the Younger Pliny, and other authors are also treated. The book considers large features of genre, and relates these to fundamental elements of style and to the treatment of some vital themes. It aims to give the reader a feeling for this brilliant, and extraordinary, writing, and a sense of the excitement and fascination of the literary period. Latin in the text is translated. |
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... brings out with rich paradox both the importance of the animus and its scope for greatness : cogitate nihil praeter animum esse mirabile , cui magno nihil magnum est , ' Think that nothing deserves wonder save the spirit ; if it is ...
... brings out with rich paradox both the importance of the animus and its scope for greatness : cogitate nihil praeter animum esse mirabile , cui magno nihil magnum est , ' Think that nothing deserves wonder save the spirit ; if it is ...
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... brings out the paradox . The devious play with guilt is highly reminiscent of Lucan . The next sentence defends and brings out the con- ceptual paradox of Eteocles ' innocence ( his relative innocence becoming absolute ) . Eteocles ...
... brings out the paradox . The devious play with guilt is highly reminiscent of Lucan . The next sentence defends and brings out the con- ceptual paradox of Eteocles ' innocence ( his relative innocence becoming absolute ) . Eteocles ...
Pàgina 151
... brings out the emotion . To think the author actually so beyond discipline would be no less naïve than in the case of Tacitus , and would ignore the flagrant elegance and artifice of language and form.9 We already see complexities ...
... brings out the emotion . To think the author actually so beyond discipline would be no less naïve than in the case of Tacitus , and would ignore the flagrant elegance and artifice of language and form.9 We already see complexities ...
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Criticism in Prose Lower Poetry | 4 |
Genre and Philosophy History and High Poetry | 40 |
Wit | 77 |
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action actually Aeson Alcimede Amycus appears aspects Astyanax Capaneus clause climax close complicated context contrast death declamation depicts display divine Domitian effect Elder Seneca element emotion enjambment epic epigram episode Eteocles expression extravagance extreme force genre gives gods grandeur grandiose handling Hercules high poetry Hippolytus Hist impact ingenuity intellectual Juno Jupiter Juvenal language lavish less literary literature Lucan magnificent Mars Martial moral mythological Naevolus narration narrative oratory Ovid paradox particularly passage pathos Paullus Pelias philosophical phrase physical play Plin Pliny Pliny's poem poet poet's poetic Pompey Pompey's praef present prose Quint Quintilian reader reality relation rhetoric Roman scene Seneca sense sentence shows significant Silius speech Statius Stoic Stoicism strange sublimity suggests Tacitus Theb theme Thyestes Tiberius tragedy treatment truth Tydeus unreality Valerius Venus viii Virg Virgil Vitellius whole words writing
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