The sixty years between 43 BC, when Cicero was assassinated, and AD 17, when Ovid died in exile and disgrace, saw an unexampled explosion of literary creativity in Rome. Fresh ground was broken in almost every existing genre, and a new kind of specifically Roman poetry, the personal love-elegy, was born, flourished, and succumbed to its own success. Latin literature now became, in the familiar modern sense of the word, classical: a balanced fusion of what was best and most stimulating in earlier Greek and Roman writing, ...
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The sixty years between 43 BC, when Cicero was assassinated, and AD 17, when Ovid died in exile and disgrace, saw an unexampled explosion of literary creativity in Rome. Fresh ground was broken in almost every existing genre, and a new kind of specifically Roman poetry, the personal love-elegy, was born, flourished, and succumbed to its own success. Latin literature now became, in the familiar modern sense of the word, classical: a balanced fusion of what was best and most stimulating in earlier Greek and Roman writing, charged with new and original life by the individual genius of, most particularly, Virgil, Horace and Ovid. Augustan literature, conventionally viewed as the expression in writing of the age itself - political and social stability reflected in artistic equilibrium - turns out on a close and critical reading to have been subject to the same stresses and strains as the society in and for which it was produced. In appraising the monumental literary achievements of the age the underlying tensions and contradictions are not ignored. The critical discussions in this volume do full justice to the complexity and subtlety of the literature itself.
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Good Condition. Cover slightly worn and scuffed. Contents clean and bright, with uncreased pages. In good shape overall. vi, 239 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Classical literature; ISBN: 0521273730. ISBN/EAN: 9780521273732. Add. Inventory No: 231027HAAC05048.
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Reader copy. Ex library paperback; usual stamps/markings. Volume II Latin Literature Part 3-The Age of Augustus. Some minor creases to covers otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 27B*
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Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. vi, 239pp. First published as chapters 15-23 of The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume II, first published in 1982. Good softcover. Covers slightly age-toned. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding firm.
