Roman literature / by Michael Grant.
1958
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Title
Roman literature / by Michael Grant.
Edition
New edition.
Published
Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1958.
Language
English
Description
287 pages ; 18 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1895460
Summary
A description of the leading Latin writers, illustrated by English translations of passages from their works, with discussions of their influence on European thought.
Note
"First published by the Cambridge University Press 1954."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : 1. General development: Romans and Greeks. 2. The first Roman success: comedy
Part I. Prose works
(1) Cicero : 1. Cicero's speeches. 2. Attitudes to public speaking. 3. Guides to behaviour: Cicero and Seneca. Law. 4. The Roman letter
(2) Fact and fiction : History. 2. From Caesar to Livy. 3. Tacitus. 4. Biography and fiction.
Part II. Poetry
(3) Poetry: Lucretius and Catullus : 1. Attitudes to poetry. 2. Poetry of instruction: Lucretius. 3. Love lyric and love elegy: Catullus and Propertius.
(4) Virgil : 1. Poetry: the Eclogues. 2. The land of Italy: the Georgics. 3. Romantic epic: the Aeneid.
(5) Horace, Ovid, and after : 1. Augustan lyric and satire: Horace. 2. The new elegy and the Metamorphoses: Ovid. 3. Post-Augustan poetry.
Epilogue: the survival of Roman literature : 1. Christian prose and poetry. 2. From Petrarch till today.
Part I. Prose works
(1) Cicero : 1. Cicero's speeches. 2. Attitudes to public speaking. 3. Guides to behaviour: Cicero and Seneca. Law. 4. The Roman letter
(2) Fact and fiction : History. 2. From Caesar to Livy. 3. Tacitus. 4. Biography and fiction.
Part II. Poetry
(3) Poetry: Lucretius and Catullus : 1. Attitudes to poetry. 2. Poetry of instruction: Lucretius. 3. Love lyric and love elegy: Catullus and Propertius.
(4) Virgil : 1. Poetry: the Eclogues. 2. The land of Italy: the Georgics. 3. Romantic epic: the Aeneid.
(5) Horace, Ovid, and after : 1. Augustan lyric and satire: Horace. 2. The new elegy and the Metamorphoses: Ovid. 3. Post-Augustan poetry.
Epilogue: the survival of Roman literature : 1. Christian prose and poetry. 2. From Petrarch till today.
Series
Pelican books ; A427.
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