Latin Literature: A HistoryJohns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - 827 sider "This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades." "From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte. Many of the entries - those on Virgil and Petronius, for example - provide elegantly compact formulations of work on the very frontier of current study, and virtually all entries offer something of interest for the lay reader and expert alike."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... expressing ideas and giving philosophical form to his discourse . Paradoxi- cally , the expression , as if compensating for that poverty , derives from this an advantage : it comes alive to fill the verbal vacuums by recourse to a vast ...
... expressing ideas and giving philosophical form to his discourse . Paradoxi- cally , the expression , as if compensating for that poverty , derives from this an advantage : it comes alive to fill the verbal vacuums by recourse to a vast ...
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... expression for evoking the hidden states of mind of crowds and groups of persons . Skillful speeches directly reported are often composed , with effective oratorical art , for the purpose of delineating the thoughts of individuals , and ...
... expression for evoking the hidden states of mind of crowds and groups of persons . Skillful speeches directly reported are often composed , with effective oratorical art , for the purpose of delineating the thoughts of individuals , and ...
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... expression Formulas of pathetic expressiveness Apuleius as artist of the word Antiquity complete mastery of different registers , which are combined in the texture of the language in various ways . Hence the absolute freedom in ...
... expression Formulas of pathetic expressiveness Apuleius as artist of the word Antiquity complete mastery of different registers , which are combined in the texture of the language in various ways . Hence the absolute freedom in ...
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Literary History and Historiography I | 1 |
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