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Latin Literature

Series The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 2

Edited by E. J. Kenney and W. V. Clausen

Publication Date 1982

Hardback ISBN-10
0521210437

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521210430

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521210430

Overview

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Readers and critics

Early republic

Late republic

The age of Augustus

Early principate

Later principate

Epilogue
by
P. G. Walsh

Appendix of authors and works
by
Martin Drury

Metrical appendix
by
Martin Drury

Works Cited in the Text

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