A companion to Latin literature

A Companion to Latin Literature (2005)\r......Page 1
BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 4
ISBN: 0631235299......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Chronological Table of Important Dates in Latin Literature and History to AD 200......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 17
Reference Works: Abbreviations......Page 18
1 Rationale of This Volume......Page 20
2 General Resources and Author Bibliographies......Page 22
PART I - Periods......Page 33
1 The Beginnings......Page 34
2 Roman Epic (see also Hardie, Chapter 6)......Page 38
3 Historiography (cf. Kraus, Chapter 17)......Page 40
4 Hellenism......Page 41
5 The Status of Poets: Lucilius......Page 44
FURTHER READING......Page 48
1 Introduction......Page 50
2 Political Literature......Page 52
3 Intellectual Literature......Page 54
4 Literary Development......Page 58
FURTHER READING......Page 61
1 Introduction......Page 63
Phase 1: The Triumviral years......Page 64
Phase 2: The Augustan settlement......Page 66
Phase 3: A lost generation......Page 72
FURTHER READING......Page 75
1 Introduction: the Literary Landscape after Augustus......Page 77
2 Recitation and Declamation......Page 79
3 Formal and Stylistic Developments......Page 80
4 Literature and its Cultural Context......Page 82
5 Imperial Renewals......Page 83
6 Neronian Renaissance......Page 86
FURTHER READING......Page 87
1 Background......Page 88
2 Literature and Politics......Page 90
3 The Later Second Century AD......Page 93
4 Conclusion......Page 97
FURTHER READING......Page 98
PART II - Genres......Page 100
2 Pre-Virgilian Epic: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius (see also Goldberg, Chapter 1)......Page 102
3 Virgil’s Aeneid......Page 104
Ovid’s Metamorphoses......Page 110
Lucan’s Bellum Civile......Page 113
Silius Italicus’ Punica......Page 115
Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid......Page 116
5 Conclusion......Page 118
FURTHER READING......Page 119
1 Epic and Didactic......Page 120
2 Greek Antecedents: Hesiod to Aratus......Page 122
3 The Development of Latin Didactic......Page 123
4 Didactic Poetry after Lucretius......Page 126
5 Intertextuality and Recurrent Themes of Didactic Poetry......Page 132
FURTHER READING......Page 133
1 Introduction: from Greek to Roman Tragedy......Page 135
2 The Beginnings: Livius, Naevius and Ennius (see also Goldberg, Chapter 1 above)......Page 137
3 Later Republican Tragedy......Page 141
4 Tragedy under the Empire: Seneca......Page 142
5 Historical Dramas......Page 146
FURTHER READING......Page 148
1 Introduction......Page 149
2 Plautus......Page 153
3 Terence......Page 156
4 Fabula Togata and Fabula Atellana......Page 157
5 Mime......Page 158
FURTHER READING......Page 165
1 Vergil’s Eclogues and the Theocritean Tradition......Page 167
2 After the Eclogues......Page 173
FURTHER READING......Page 176
1 Introduction......Page 178
2 The Elegists and the Shape of Elegy......Page 179
3 Key Features of Elegy: the ‘Alienation’ of the Elegist......Page 181
4 The Elegiac Woman......Page 184
5 Origins and Development......Page 185
6 Individual Characteristics and Contributions of the Elegists......Page 188
7 Ovid and after......Page 191
FURTHER READING......Page 192
1 Introduction: Definition and Beginnings......Page 193
2 Lucilius (see also Goldberg, Chapter 1 above)......Page 195
3 Horace......Page 197
4 Persius and Menippean Satire......Page 200
5 Juvenal......Page 203
FURTHER READING......Page 207
1 Introduction......Page 208
2 The Beginnings to Catullus......Page 209
3 Horace’s Epodes and Odes......Page 211
4 Lyric and Iambic after Horace......Page 217
FURTHER READING......Page 218
1 General Characteristics......Page 220
2 The Beginnings......Page 224
3 Catullus and the Catalepton......Page 225
4 Martial......Page 228
FURTHER READING......Page 230
1 Introduction......Page 232
2 Petronius’ Satyrica......Page 233
3 Apuleius’ Metamorphoses......Page 236
4 The Roman Novel: Common Features......Page 239
FURTHER READING......Page 240
1 Introduction......Page 242
2 Beginnings: Cato and Others......Page 246
3 Philosophy and Rhetoric at Rome: the Works of Cicero......Page 249
4 After Cicero: Varro and Others......Page 253
FURTHER READING......Page 258
1 Some Formal Considerations......Page 260
2 History’s Purpose, History’s Rhetoric......Page 261
3 History’s Language......Page 262
4 Reading History......Page 264
5 The Shift to Biography: Praise, Blame and Historical Narrative......Page 268
6 Biography......Page 271
FURTHER READING......Page 274
1 Introduction......Page 276
2 Rhetoric at Rome in the First Century BC......Page 278
3 The Speeches of Cicero......Page 280
4 Oratory under the Empire......Page 285
FURTHER READING......Page 288
1 Introduction......Page 289
2 Cicero......Page 290
3 Philosophical Letters: Horace’s Epistles......Page 293
4 Ovid’s Epistolary Poetry......Page 294
5 Seneca......Page 296
6 Pliny the Younger......Page 298
FURTHER READING......Page 301
PART III - Themes......Page 304
2 Decline, Expansion and Civil War......Page 306
3 The Golden Age, Decadence and Nostalgic Primitivism......Page 310
4 Imperial Decline......Page 315
5 Conclusion......Page 317
FURTHER READING......Page 318
1 Writing on Art: the Epigraphic Habit......Page 319
2 Art within Writing: the Rise of Illustration......Page 326
3 Art Described: the Uses of Ecphrasis......Page 330
4 Conclusion......Page 336
FURTHER READING......Page 337
1 Introduction......Page 338
2 Roman Concepts of Passion......Page 339
3 The Passions and Rhetoric......Page 340
4 The Passions in Roman Imaginative Literature......Page 344
FURTHER READING......Page 349
2 The Didactic Impulse: Fathers and Sons......Page 350
3 Between Men: Homosocial Intercourse in Latin Literature......Page 355
4 The Traffic in Women......Page 357
5 Among Women......Page 360
FURTHER READING......Page 362
1 Introduction......Page 364
2 Patronage and Friendship in Early Roman Literature......Page 366
3 Patronage and Friendship in the Literature of the Later Republic......Page 369
4 Patronage and Friendship in the Literature of the Augustan Age......Page 371
5 Patronage and Friendship in the Literature of the Empire......Page 374
FURTHER READING......Page 377
2 Roman Authors, Audiences and Texts......Page 379
3 Roman Ethnography......Page 381
4 Cicero and the Greeks......Page 382
5 The Carthaginians......Page 385
6 Plautus’ Poenulus......Page 386
7 Conclusion......Page 389
FURTHER READING......Page 390
1 Introduction......Page 391
3 Theory and Prescription......Page 392
4 Roman Peculiarities......Page 394
5 Marriage......Page 395
6 Ideals......Page 398
7 Husband and Wife......Page 399
8 Parents and Children......Page 401
FURTHER READING......Page 403
1 Introduction......Page 404
2 Slavery and Honour......Page 406
3 Slaves in Latin Literature......Page 407
FURTHER READING......Page 412
1 Introduction: the Roman Miracle......Page 413
2 The Provincial......Page 414
4 Mobility and Writing......Page 418
5 Authorial Self-positioning......Page 420
6 Peripheral Readers......Page 421
FURTHER READING......Page 424
Bibliography......Page 425
Index......Page 463