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Cinna the Poet: Appropriation and Innovation in Late Republican Rome

Cinna the Poet: Appropriation and Innovation in Late Republican Rome

Busti, Francesco

Hardcover

Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, Book 15

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 9004766480
ISBN13: 9789004766488
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This book examines the life and works of Catullus' friend and fellow poet Gaius Helvius Cinna (d. 44 BCE) within the context of Rome's expansion. Far from being a learned imitation of remote foreign sources, Cinna's poetry engaged profoundly with the political contingencies of his time. Close readings of four nodes in Cinna's corpus illustrate how Late Republican poetry contributed to the making of Rome into an empire. Appropriated lands, people and objects were converted into sources of literary capital, while the expanded literary repertoire provided a framework for further appropriation. Literature was anchored in conquest, and conquest in literature.

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