The Cambridge History of Classical Literature

Latin Literature Part 3

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The sixty years between 43 BC, when Cicero was assassinated, and AD 17, when Ovid died in exile and disgrace, saw an unexampled explosion of literary creativity in Rome. Fresh ground was broken in almost every existing genre, and a new kind of specifically Roman poetry, the personal love-elegy, was born, flourished, and succumbed to its own success. Latin literature now became, in the familiar modern sense of the word, classical: a balanced fusion of what was best and most stimulating in earlier Greek and Roman writing, charged with new and original life by the individual genius of, most particularly, Virgil, Horace and Ovid. Augustan literature, conventionally viewed as the expression in writing of the age itself - political and social stability reflected in artistic equilibrium - turns out on a close and critical reading to have been subject to the same stresses and strains as the society in and for which it was produced. In appraising the monumental literary achievements of the age the underlying tensions and contradictions are not ignored. The critical discussions in this volume do full justice to the complexity and subtlety of the literature itself.

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Uncertainties	p. 1
Theocritus and Virgil	p. 5
Virgil and Theocritus	p. 7
The book of Eclogues	p. 13
Three Eclogues	p. 17
The Georgics	p. 24
Political background	p. 24
Literary antecedents	p. 25
Intention and nature of the poem	p. 26
Structure	p. 27
Other poetic features	p. 35
Transition to the Aeneid	p. 36
The Aeneid	p. 37
The Aeneid and its Augustan background	p. 37
The Aeneid and its literary background	p. 43
The composition and structure of the Aeneid	p. 48
The chief characters	p. 50
Destiny and religion in the Aeneid	p. 61
Style and metre	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 72
Horace	p. 74
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A critique of the academic dichotomy	p. 89
Love elegy	p. 109
General introduction	p. 109
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Cornelius Gallus	p. 114
Albius Tibullus and the Corpus Tibullianum	p. 115
Sextus Propertius	p. 117
Publius Ovidius Naso	p. 120
Other elegists	p. 122
Ovid	p. 124
'Fame is the spur'	p. 124
The Heroides	p. 126
The Fasti	p. 132
The Metamorphoses	p. 134
The poems of exile	p. 145
Achievement and characteristics	p. 159
Livy	p. 162
Minor figures	p. 171
Poetry	p. 171
Prose	p. 195
Appendix of authors and works	p. 199
Metrical appendix	p. 221
Abbreviations	p. 225
Works cited in the text	p. 229
Index	p. 235
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