Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521174190)

How the Romans came to have a literature reflecting native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy for subsequent generations have become central questions in the cultural history of the Republic. This book explores the development of Roman literary sensibility from early interest in epic and drama, through invention of satire and eventual enshrining of books in public collections important to Horace and Ovid. The "early" literature is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected and canonized.

Author: Sander M. Goldberg,Goldberg
ISBN-10: 0521174198
ISBN-13: 9780521174190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2011
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d