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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Pàgina 8
... matter and style alike : sublimitate heroi carminis ... et ... magnitudine rerum , ' the sublimity of epic poetry ' ( note the possessive ) ' and the greatness of [ Homer and Virgil's ] matter ' ( i . 8. 5 ) . Even here it is not ...
... matter and style alike : sublimitate heroi carminis ... et ... magnitudine rerum , ' the sublimity of epic poetry ' ( note the possessive ) ' and the greatness of [ Homer and Virgil's ] matter ' ( i . 8. 5 ) . Even here it is not ...
Pàgina 28
... matters . hinc trahe quae dicas , mensasque relinque Mycenis cum capite et pedibus , plebeiaque prandia noris . Draw your subject - matter from Rome ; leave those feasts of Thyestes at Mycenae , along with those human heads and feet ...
... matters . hinc trahe quae dicas , mensasque relinque Mycenis cum capite et pedibus , plebeiaque prandia noris . Draw your subject - matter from Rome ; leave those feasts of Thyestes at Mycenae , along with those human heads and feet ...
Pàgina 111
... matter is of special importance , and then turn to consider some other writers : again the matter illuminates both genre and individuality . In looking at the high poetry , and at Seneca's prose , we shall con- centrate on extravagance ...
... matter is of special importance , and then turn to consider some other writers : again the matter illuminates both genre and individuality . In looking at the high poetry , and at Seneca's prose , we shall con- centrate on extravagance ...
Continguts
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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