Early Latin Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51826-1
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry

This analysis explores select aspects of the extant fragmentary record of early Roman poetry from its earliest accessible moments through roughly the first hundred and twenty years of its traceable existence. Key questions include how ancient readers made sense of the record as then available to them and how the limitations of their accounts, assumptions, and working methods continue to define the contours of our understanding today. Both using and challenging the standard conceptual frameworks operative in the ancient world, the discussion details what we think we know of the best documented forms, practitioners, contexts, and reception of Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire in their early instantiations, with occasional glances at the further generic experimentation that accompanied the genesis of literary practice at Rome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Jackie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Early Latin Poetry

Jackie Elliott

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction: Origins

2 Approaching Fragmentary Material: Method and Access in the Modern Era

3 Questions of Audience, Circulation, and Performance

4 Genre

5 Poets

6 Reception

7 Reflection

Acknowledgments

References

Über Autor(innen)

Jackie Elliott, Ph.D. (2005), Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales (Cambridge 2013).