A Companion To Latin Literature

by Harrison, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780631235293
• ISBN10: 0631235299
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. The volume provides the reader with a comprehensive reference for Latin literature. It includes a narrative history, an overview of all major genres, and coverage of key themes - all written by experts in their fields. As an invaluable resource for the student, the book also includes dictionary entries on Latin authors, a chronological chart of political and literary history, and a large annotated bibliography. The volume thus combines the virtues of a discursive literary history and a general reference book.

Author Biography

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His recent publications include Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (2000), Apuleius: Rhetorical Works (ed. 2001) and Texts, Ideas and the Classics (ed. 2001).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
Chronological Table	ix
Notes on Contributors	xii
Preface	xvi
Reference Works: Abbreviations	xvii
Introduction: Constructing Latin Literature	1	(12)
Stephen Harrison
Part I Periods	13	(68)
The Early Republic: the Beginnings to 90 BC	15	(16)
Sander M. Goldberg
The Late Republican/Triumviral Period: 90--40 BC	31	(13)
D. S. Levene
The Augustan Period: 40 BC--AD 14	44	(14)
Joseph Farrell
The Early Empire: AD 14--68	58	(11)
Roland Mayer
The High Empire: AD 69--200	69	(12)
Bruce Gibson
Part II Genres	81	(204)
Narrative Epic	83	(18)
Philip Hardie
Didactic Epic	101	(15)
Monica Gale
Roman Tragedy	116	(14)
Elaine Fantham
Comedy, Atellane Farce and Mime	130	(18)
Costas Panayotakis
Pastoral	148	(11)
Stephen Heyworth
Love Elegy	159	(15)
Roy Gibson
Satire	174	(15)
Llewelyn Morgan
Lyric and Iambic	189	(12)
Stephen Harrison
Epigram	201	(12)
Lindsay C. Watson
The Novel	213	(10)
Stephen Harrison
Dialogues and Treatises	223	(18)
J. G. F. Powell
Historiography and Biography	241	(16)
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
Oratory	257	(13)
D. H. Berry
Epistolography	270	(15)
Catharine Edwards
Part III Themes	285	(121)
Decline and Nostalgia	287	(13)
Stephen Harrison
Art and Text	300	(19)
Jas Elsner
The Passions	319	(12)
Robert A. Kaster
Sex and Gender	331	(14)
A. M. Keith
Friendship and Patronage	345	(15)
David Konstan
Romans and Others	360	(12)
Yasmin Syed
Marriage and Family	372	(13)
Susan Treggiari
Slavery and Class	385	(9)
Thomas Habinek
Centre and Periphery	394	(12)
Alessandro Barchiesi
Bibliography	406	(38)
Index	444