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Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Feeney, Denis

Paperback

Literary CriticismAncient Rome

ISBN10: 067498658X
ISBN13: 9780674986589
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Jan 14 2019
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

A History Today Best Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history.

Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney's work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history--how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes--feel fresh and urgent again.

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