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Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 2, Elegy, Lyric and Other Topics

Denis Feeney author Stephen Hinds editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:30th Mar '23

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A collection of all the major papers by a leading Latinist, on key ancient genres and theoretical issues.

A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a particular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a foreword by Stephen Hinds.Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh all his major papers, covering a wide range of topics and interests. Ancient epic is a major focus, followed by Latin lyric, historiography and elegy. Ancient literary criticism and the technology of the book are recurrent themes. Many papers address the problems of literary responses to religion and ritual, with an interdisciplinary methodology drawing on comparative anthropology and religion. The transition from Republic to Empire and the emergence of the Augustan principate form the background to the majority of the papers, and the question of how literary texts are to be read in historical context is addressed throughout. All quotations from ancient and modern languages have now been translated and Stephen Hinds has contributed a foreword.

ISBN: 9781108741514

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm

Weight: 680g

472 pages