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Author | : Luke Roman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199675635 |
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Luke Roman argues that poets in ancient Rome employed a distinctive 'rhetoric of autonomy' and represented their poetry as different from other cultural products and social relations. Looking closely at the works of famous Roman poets, he offers fresh insights into ancient literary texts and the dialogue between ancient and modern aesthetics.
Author | : Nandini B. Pandey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108529917 |
Download The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals. This book illuminates Roman subjects' vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets' sustained exploration of audiences' active part in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome's evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike.
Author | : Michele Kennerly |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2018-09-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1611179114 |
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Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body. They were also supported by people upon whom writers relied for various kinds of assistance and necessitated by lively debates about what sort of words should be put out and remain in public. Spanning ancient Athenian, Alexandrian, and Roman textual cultures, Kennerly shows that orators and poets attributed public value to their seemingly inward-turning compositional labors. After establishing certain key terms of writing and editing from classical Athens through late republican Rome, Kennerly focuses on works from specific orators and poets writing in Latin in the first century B.C.E. and the first century C.E.: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger. The result is a rich and original history of rhetoric that reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures. This major contribution to rhetorical studies unsettles longstanding assumptions about ancient rhetoric and poetics by means of generative readings of both well-known and understudied texts.
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1108580092 |
Download Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the archaic symposium through the 'polis of letters' enabled by Athenian democracy and into the Hellenistic era, where one's space mattered and culture became bifurcated between Athens and Alexandria. This duality was reconfigured into an eclectic variety consumed by Roman patrons and predicated on scale, with about a thousand authors active at any given moment. As patronage dried up in the third century CE, scale collapsed and literary culture was reduced to the teaching of a narrower field of authors, paving the way for the Middle Ages. The result is a new history of ancient culture which is sociological, quantitative, and all-encompassing, cutting through eras and genres.
Author | : Alison Keith |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144262969X |
Download Roman Literary Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws. Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.
Author | : Joseph Farrell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2013-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199587221 |
Download Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.
Author | : Tom Geue |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2017-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108248667 |
Download Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a dubious biography to recommend them. Tom Geue argues that the missing author figure is no mere casualty of time's passage, but a startling, concerted effect of the Satires themselves. Scribbling dangerous social critique under a historical maximum of paranoia, Juvenal harnessed this dark energy by wiping all traces of himself - signature, body, biographical snippets, social connections - from his reticent texts. This last major ambassador of a once self-betraying genre took a radical leap into the anonymous. Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity tracks this mystifying self-concealment over the whole Juvenalian corpus. Through probing close readings, it shows how important the missing author was to this satire, and how that absence echoes and amplifies the neurotic politics of writing under surveillance.
Author | : Bobby Xinyue |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 019266848X |
Download Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.
Author | : Ruurd R. Nauta |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2017-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004351140 |
Download Poetry for Patrons Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of the phenomenon of literary patronage, both non-imperial and imperial, during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.). The central texts are the Epigrams of Martial and the Silvae of Statius.
Author | : Lauren Curtis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107188784 |
Download Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers a new interpretation of Augustan literature, focusing on its imaginative reading of Greek musical culture.