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Fragments of Roman Poetry c.60 BC-AD 20 [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollis, Adrian S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin poetry.
- Lost literature.
- Latin poetry--History and criticism--Rome--Translations into English.
- Local Subjects:
- Latin poetry.
- Lost literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (459 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An edition and translation of a collection of fragments of Roman poetry composed between 60 BC and AD 20, when Latin literature was at its height. Study of these fragmentary texts enables us better to appreciate surviving great poets such as Catullus and Virgil. - ;This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest period of Latin poetry, about 60 BC to AD 20. Catullus (by a slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his friend Calvus just as highly; comparison of the two reveals an extraordinarily close relationship. Horace mentions Varius Rufus in the same brea
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Poets in Alphabetical Order; Numbering of Items: Comparative Table; Introduction; Text, Translation, and Commentary; C. Helvius Cinna; C. Licinius Calvus; Egnatius; C. Memmius; Aemilius Macer; M. Furius Bibaculus; Q. Mucius Scaevola; Q. Cornificius; (?Q.) Hortensius Hortalus; Ticida; Volumnius; P. Terentius Varro Atacinus; C. Asinius Pollio; C. Cornelius Gallus; L. Varius Rufus; C. Caesar Octavianus (Imp. Augustus); C. Valgius Rufus; Domitius Marsus; C. Maecenas; M. Tullius Laurea; Arbonius Silo; Dorcatius; Gracchus; Sextilius Ena; Cornelius Severus; Iulius Montanus
- Albinovanus PedoRabirius; Adespota Selecta; Appendix: Named Poets of Whom No Verbatim Quotations Survive; Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181915-8
- 0-19-156851-1
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