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 21
... speaks of poetry . It is no mere declamation , he stresses ; yet crucial to its success is remoteness from ordinary reality , in diction , manner , and con- tent . The poem Lucan had started on the Civil War is implicitly criticized in ...
... speaks of poetry . It is no mere declamation , he stresses ; yet crucial to its success is remoteness from ordinary reality , in diction , manner , and con- tent . The poem Lucan had started on the Civil War is implicitly criticized in ...
Pàgina 238
... speaks with oracular and exciting authority . The passage will develop into more argumentative exposition , but that in turn will lead us back into the glory of knowing such truths ( as Seneca himself in some sense seems to ) and of ...
... speaks with oracular and exciting authority . The passage will develop into more argumentative exposition , but that in turn will lead us back into the glory of knowing such truths ( as Seneca himself in some sense seems to ) and of ...
Pàgina 292
... speaks ( 276f . ) , and he views his life as ended ( 283 , cf. 295 f . , 288 ) . None the less , we here see powerfully dramatized the resolve to embrace a noble death ; the pathos is only increased by Paullus ' state and his ...
... speaks ( 276f . ) , and he views his life as ended ( 283 , cf. 295 f . , 288 ) . None the less , we here see powerfully dramatized the resolve to embrace a noble death ; the pathos is only increased by Paullus ' state and his ...
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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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