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Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic

Sander M. Goldberg

出版	Cambridge University Press, 2005-11-07
主題	History / GeneralLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Criticism / European / EasternLiterary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
ISBN	052185461X9780521854610
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cSWUPFkvYaUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Becoming Roman Literature examines the problem of Rome's literary development by shifting attention from Rome's writers to its readers. The literature we traditionally call "early " is seen to be a product less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate, than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected, canonized, and put to new social and artistic uses. Imposing on texts the name and function of literature was thus often a retrospective activity. This book explores the development of this literary sensibility from the Romans' early interest in epic and drama, through the invention of satire and the eventual enshrining of books in the public collections that became so important to Horace and Ovid.