A Companion to Latin Literature

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD.

• Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major genres, and key themes

• Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, from Ennius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius

• Includes invaluable reference material - dictionary entries on authors, chronological chart of political and literary history, and an annotated bibliography

• Serves as both a discursive literary history and a general reference book

Auteur
Stephen Harrison is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His recent publications include Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (2000), Apuleius: Rhetorical Works (ed. 2001) and Texts, Ideas and the Classics (ed. 2001).

Résumé

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD.

• Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major genres, and key themes
• Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, from Ennius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius
• Includes invaluable reference material dictionary entries on authors, chronological chart of political and literary history, and an annotated bibliography
• Serves as both a discursive literary history and a general reference book

Contenu

List of Figures viii

Chronological Table ix

Notes on Contributors xii

Preface xvi

Reference Works: Abbreviations xvii

Introduction: Constructing Latin Literature 1

Stephen Harrison

PART I PERIODS 13

1 The Early Republic: the Beginnings to 90 BC 15

Sander M. Goldberg

2 The Late Republican/Triumviral Period: 90-40 BC 31

D. S. Levene

3 The Augustan Period: 40 BC-AD 14 44

Joseph Farrell

4 The Early Empire: AD 14-68 58

Roland Mayer

5 The High Empire: AD 69-200 69

Bruce Gibson

PART II GENRES 81

6 Narrative Epic 83

Philip Hardie

7 Didactic Epic 101

Monica Gale

8 Roman Tragedy 116

Elaine Fantham

9 Comedy, Atellane Farce and Mime 130

Costas Panayotakis

10 Pastoral 148

Stephen Heyworth

11 Love Elegy 159

Roy Gibson

12 Satire 174

Llewelyn Morgan

13 Lyric and Iambic 189

Stephen Harrison

14 Epigram 201

Lindsay C. Watson

15 The Novel 213

Stephen Harrison

16 Dialogues and Treatises 223

J. G. F. Powell

17 Historiography and Biography 241

Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

18 Oratory 257

D. H. Berry

19 Epistolography 270

Catharine Edwards

PART III THEMES 285

20 Decline and Nostalgia 287

Stephen Harrison

21 Art and Text 300

Jas Elsner

22 The Passions 319

Robert A. Kaster

23 Sex and Gender 331

A. M. Keith

24 Friendship and Patronage 345

David Konstan

25 Romans and Others 360

Yasmin Syed

26 Marriage and Family 372

Susan Treggiari

27 Slavery and Class 385

Thomas Habinek

28 Centre and Periphery 394

Alessandro Barchiesi

Bibliography 406

Index 444