Early Latin Poetry / Jackie Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Jackie, 1973- author.

Series:

Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

This analysis explores select aspects of the extant fragmentary record of early Roman poetry from its earliest accessible moments through roughly the first hundred and twenty years of its traceable existence. Key questions include how ancient readers made sense of the record as then available to them and how the limitations of their accounts, assumptions, and working methods continue to define the contours of our understanding today. Both using and challenging the standard conceptual frameworks operative in the ancient world, the discussion details what we think we know of the best documented forms, practitioners, contexts, and reception of Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire in their early instantiations, with occasional glances at the further generic experimentation that accompanied the genesis of literary practice at Rome.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Early Latin Poetry

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction: Origins

1.1 The Record Prior to Livius Andronicus

1.2 The Sources of Our Knowledge

2 Approaching Fragmentary Material: Method and Access in the Modern Era

3 Questions of Audience, Circulation, and Performance

4 Genre

4.1 Fabula Crepidata

4.2 Fabula Praetexta

4.3 Epic

4.4 Satire

4.5 Further Genres and Generic Experimentation

5 Poets

5.1 Livius Andronicus

5.2 Naevius

5.3 Ennius (239-169 BCE)

5.4 Pacuvius (220-130 BCE)

5.5 Lucilius (180? 168? 158?-103/2 BCE)

5.6 Accius (170-84 BCE)

6 Reception

7 Reflection

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Elliott, Jackie Early Latin Poetry

ISBN:

9789004518278

OCLC:

1312159081

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004518278 DOI