{"product_id":"roman-literary-culture-9781421408354","title":"Roman Literary Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFantham offers a succinct but generous guide to recent scholarship in Latin literature. I heartily recommend her book to scholars of Latin literature, to instructors seeking a textbook for History of Latin Literature courses and to graduate students studying for exams. -- T. Keith Dix Sharp News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eToward a Social History of Latin Literature\u003cbr\u003eAuthor, Audience, and Medium\u003cbr\u003eEnnius and Cato, Two Early Writers\u003cbr\u003eNew Genres of Literature, from Lucilius to Apuleius\u003cbr\u003eGeneric Preoccupations\u003cbr\u003eChapter One\u003cbr\u003eStarting from Scratch\u003cbr\u003eDrama—The First Literary Genre\u003cbr\u003eComedy: Naevius, Plautus, and Terence\u003cbr\u003eThe Tragic Tradition\u003cbr\u003ePatriotism and History in Poetry and Prose\u003cbr\u003eThe First Latin History: Cato's Origines\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Gracchi to Sulla: Lucilian Satire and the New Individualism\u003cbr\u003eCatullus and Lucretius\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two\u003cbr\u003eRome at the End of the Republic\u003cbr\u003eRoman Education, for Better or Worse\u003cbr\u003eLiterature and Nationalism\u003cbr\u003eLiterature and the Amateur\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Studies and the Recreation of Literary History\u003cbr\u003eLiterature and Scholarship: Cicero's Evidence for the Studies of Caesar and Varro\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three\u003cbr\u003eThe Coming of the Principate: \"Augustan\" Literary Culture\u003cbr\u003eThe Survivors: The New Poets Gallus and Virgil\u003cbr\u003eThe Roman Poetry Book, a New Literary Form\u003cbr\u003ePrivate and Public Patronage\u003cbr\u003eThe Emperor as Theme and Patron\u003cbr\u003eThe Best of Patrons, and the Patron's Greater Friend\u003cbr\u003ePerformance and Readership\u003cbr\u003eSpoken and Written Prose in Augustan Society: Rhetoric as Training and Display\u003cbr\u003eThe First Real Histories\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four\u003cbr\u003eUn-Augustan Activities\u003cbr\u003eThe Literature of Youth\u003cbr\u003eLove and Elegy\u003cbr\u003eOvid the Scapegoat, and the Sorrows of Augustus\u003cbr\u003eInnocence and Power of the Book\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five\u003cbr\u003eAn Inhibited Generation: Suppression and Survival\u003cbr\u003ePermissible Literature: Prose\u003cbr\u003eMoral Treatises and Letters\u003cbr\u003eDidactic and Descriptive Poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe Tastes and Prejudices of Augustus's Imperial Successors\u003cbr\u003eThe Divergence of Theater and Drama\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six\u003cbr\u003eBetween Nero and Domitian: The Challenge to Poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe Neronian Revival\u003cbr\u003ePoetry and Parody in a New Setting\u003cbr\u003eVicissitudes of the Epic Muse\u003cbr\u003eProfessional Poets in the Time of Domitian\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven\u003cbr\u003eLiterature and the Governing Classes: From the Accession of Vespasian to the Death of Trajan\u003cbr\u003eEquestrian and Senatorial Writers: A Changing Elite\u003cbr\u003eChoices of Literary Career: Fame or Survival?\u003cbr\u003ePliny's Letters and His Literary World\u003cbr\u003eThe Public World of the Senator and Orator\u003cbr\u003eThe World of the Auditorium\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Culture in Decline: The Antonine Years\u003cbr\u003eHadrian, the Philhellene\u003cbr\u003eThe Traveling Sophists\u003cbr\u003eThe Provinces and Latin Culture\u003cbr\u003eMarcus Aurelius and His Teachers\u003cbr\u003eAulus Gellius, the Eternal Student in Rome and Greece\u003cbr\u003eApuleius, the Ultimate Word Artist\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine\u003cbr\u003eClassical Literary Culture and the Impact of Christianity\u003cbr\u003eTertullian and His Successors\u003cbr\u003eDiocletian and a Generation of Political Change\u003cbr\u003eAusonius\u003cbr\u003eThe Controversy over the Altar of Victory: Symmachus and Prudentius\u003cbr\u003eClaudian\u003cbr\u003eThe Maturity of Christian Prose: Jerome and Augustine\u003cbr\u003eMacrobius: The Last Celebrant of Secular Literary Culture\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529526550871,"sku":"9781421408354","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421408354.jpg?v=1731875961","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roman-literary-culture-9781421408354","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}