Literature In The Roman World

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192100207
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Oliver Taplin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.

Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195395166
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature written by Peter E. Knox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192893017
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature in the Roman World written by Oliver Taplin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, we are offered a new perspective on Roman literature, based on the conviction that our present appreciation for it should be informed and influenced by how it was originally perceived. From the beginning of the Roman Empire to the end of the classical era, this book focuses on the "receivers" of Roman literature-the readers, spectators, and audiences who first witnessed the works. Six contributors map out the lively and provocative surveys, covering the kinds of literature that have shaped Western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, elegy, satire, biography, and panegyric.

Author : Alice König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316999947
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235 written by Alice König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new ways of analysing interactions between different linguistic, cultural, and religious communities across the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva to the Severans (96–235 CE). Bringing together leading scholars in classics with experts in the history of Judaism, Christianity and the Near East, it looks beyond the Greco-Roman binary that has dominated many studies of the period, and moves beyond traditional approaches to intertextuality in its study of the circulation of knowledge across languages and cultures. Its sixteen chapters explore shared ideas about aspects of imperial experience - law, patronage, architecture, the army - as well as the movement of ideas about history, exempla, documents and marvels. As the second volume in the Literary Interactions series, it offers a new and expansive vision of cross-cultural interaction in the Roman world, shedding light on connections that have gone previously unnoticed among the subcultures of a vast and evolving Empire.

Author : Consuelo Ruiz-Montero
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527546594
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire written by Consuelo Ruiz-Montero and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Author : Elaine Fantham
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140835X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Literary Culture written by Elaine Fantham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

Author : Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108470173
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World written by Sabine R. Huebner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.

Author : Rex Winsbury
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0715638297
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Book written by Rex Winsbury and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.

Author : Andrew Dalby
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415280730
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Pleasures written by Andrew Dalby and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative survey of the sensory culture of the Roman Empire, showing how the Romans themselves depicted their food, wine and entertainments in literature and in art.

Author : Peter V. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521386005
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Rome written by Peter V. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, it covers all aspects of the city - its rise to power, what made it great, and why it still engages and challenges us today. The first two chapters outline the history and changing identity of Rome from 1000 BC to AD 476. Subsequent chapters examine the mechanisms of government, the economic and social life of Rome, and Roman ways of looking at and reflecting the world. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The World of Rome is particularly designed to serve as a background book to Reading Latin (Cambridge University Press, 1986).