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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Preface and Acknowledgments 8 List of Abbreviations 12 Chapter 1. Situating the Beginnings of Latin Prose 14 Chapter 2. Under the Roman Sun: Poets, Rulers, Translations, and Power 51 Chapter 5. Power Differentials in Writing: Texts and Authority 174 Conclusion 216 Bibliography 222 Index Locorum 242 General Index 244 Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2011,ISBN:9780814270639,Related ISBN:9780814211656,Language:English,OCLC:868220177 In the past decade, classical scholarship has been polarized by questions concerning the establishment of a literary tradition in Latin in the late third century BCE. On one side of the divide, there are those scholars who insist on the primacy of literature as a hermeneutical category and who, consequently, maintain a focus on poetic texts and their relationship with Hellenistic precedents. On the other side are those who prefer to rely on a pool of Latin terms as pointers to larger sociohistorical dynamics, and who see the emergence of Latin literature as one expression of these dynamics. Through a methodologically innovative exploration of the interlacing of genre and form with practice, Enri

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Author

Cato, Marcus Porcius;Sciarrino, Enrica

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814270639

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities