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Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome

Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome

David O., Ross
Ross, David O., Jr.

Paperback

General PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521136695
ISBN13: 9780521136693
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 25 2010
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject. Augustan poets were self-conscious and concerned with the works of their predecessors and contemporaries, yet there often appears a conflict between their professed poetics and what they in fact wrote. In his 'poetic biography' of the period, Professor Ross traces the developing attitude of these poets towards poetry as an art and considers why they came to write as they did. Discussion throughout is based on specific poems and passages, providing a background for critical interpretation. The book offers comprehensive and striking answers to long-standing questions and will be of importance to all students of Latin poetry.

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