A History of Latin Literature from its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus - Fulkerson, Laurel; Tatum, Jeffrey
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Latin literature exploded onto the scene from relatively humble beginnings in the third century BCE. In an astonishingly short time the Romans adopted and adapted nearly all the genres of literature known to them and not only were they well aware of their large-scale appropriation but even, curiously, boasted of it. This readable new history of Latin literature covers the full span of the Roman republic, concluding with the age of Augustus, whose great poets engaged with the enormous political and cultural changes of their time and laid the foundations for the literature of the Imperial…mehr

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Latin literature exploded onto the scene from relatively humble beginnings in the third century BCE. In an astonishingly short time the Romans adopted and adapted nearly all the genres of literature known to them and not only were they well aware of their large-scale appropriation but even, curiously, boasted of it. This readable new history of Latin literature covers the full span of the Roman republic, concluding with the age of Augustus, whose great poets engaged with the enormous political and cultural changes of their time and laid the foundations for the literature of the Imperial period. All the major writers are covered but attention is also paid to more fragmentary but still key authors such as Ennius, Cato, Lucilius, and Varro. Readers are given the essential historical, cultural, and literary background as well as close readings of specific passages, which reveal the charm and complexity which animate Latin literature.
Autorenporträt
LAUREL FULKERSON is Professor of Classics Emerita at the Florida State University. She has written forty articles and book chapters and has written or edited seven books, including The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (Cambridge, 2005), No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity (2013), A Literary Commentary on the Elegies of the Appendix Tibulliana (2017), and Ovid: A Poet on the Margins (2016). She has won several local and national teaching awards, including the American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching Award and an ovatio from CAMWS, and has had visiting appointments or guest lectureships across the United States and the United Kingdom. She edited The Classical Journal for six years and currently serves on the editorial board of Oxford University's Pseudepigraphica Latina commentary series. She was a co-founder and the first chair of the International Ovidian Society.