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• catalog abstract "Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them and under what circumstances. In Roman Literary Culture Elaine Fantham fills that gap by examining the changing social and historical context of literary production in ancient Rome and its empire. Fantham discusses the habits of Roman readers and developments in their means of access to literature, from booksellers and copyists to pirated publications and libraries. She examines the issues of patronage and the utility of literature. She shows how the constraints of the physical object itself - the ancient "book"--Influenced the practice of both reading and writing. And she explores the ways in which ancient criticism and critical attitudes reflected cultural assumptions of the time. Beginning with Cicero and his older contemporary Varro, Roman Literary Culture reviews both the public and the more private literary forms of the Augustan Age, when an elite reared on the primacy of Greek culture first confronted - and took pride in - their Roman literary inheritance. By the first century A.D., Fantham explains, Roman models dominated, and a new readership was evolving which included women and non-elite readers in the provinces who benefitted from a newly emerging commercial book trade. The second century brought a recurrence of Greek influence, as celebrated Greek rhetoricians and performers gave rise to a hybrid culture in which Greek and Latin values intertwined. The book concludes with a look at the ecumenical spread of Latin and its perpetuation through Christian literature.".
• catalog contributor b9143854.
• catalog coverage "Rome Intellectual life.".
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Beginning with Cicero and his older contemporary Varro, Roman Literary Culture reviews both the public and the more private literary forms of the Augustan Age, when an elite reared on the primacy of Greek culture first confronted - and took pride in - their Roman literary inheritance. By the first century A.D., Fantham explains, Roman models dominated, and a new readership was evolving which included women and non-elite readers in the provinces who benefitted from a newly emerging commercial book trade. The second century brought a recurrence of Greek influence, as celebrated Greek rhetoricians and performers gave rise to a hybrid culture in which Greek and Latin values intertwined. The book concludes with a look at the ecumenical spread of Latin and its perpetuation through Christian literature.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-315) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Toward a Social History of Latin Literature -- 1. Rome at the End of the Republic -- 2. The Coming of the Principate: "Augustan" Literary Culture -- 3. Un-Augustan Activities -- 4. An Inhibited Generation: Suppression and Survival -- 5. Between Nero and Domitian: The Challenge to Poetry -- 6. Literature and the Governing Classes: From the Accession of Vespasian to the Death of Trajan -- 7. Literary Culture in Decline: The Antonine Years.".
• catalog description "Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them and under what circumstances. In Roman Literary Culture Elaine Fantham fills that gap by examining the changing social and historical context of literary production in ancient Rome and its empire. Fantham discusses the habits of Roman readers and developments in their means of access to literature, from booksellers and copyists to pirated publications and libraries. She examines the issues of patronage and the utility of literature. She shows how the constraints of the physical object itself - the ancient "book"--Influenced the practice of both reading and writing. And she explores the ways in which ancient criticism and critical attitudes reflected cultural assumptions of the time.".
• catalog extent "xv, 326 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Roman literary culture.".
• catalog identifier "0801852048 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Roman literary culture.".
• catalog isPartOf "Ancient society and history".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog relation "Roman literary culture.".
• catalog spatial "Rome Intellectual life.".
• catalog spatial "Rome.".
• catalog subject "870.9/001 20".
• catalog subject "Latin literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Literature and history Rome.".
• catalog subject "PA6003 .F36 1996".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Toward a Social History of Latin Literature -- 1. Rome at the End of the Republic -- 2. The Coming of the Principate: "Augustan" Literary Culture -- 3. Un-Augustan Activities -- 4. An Inhibited Generation: Suppression and Survival -- 5. Between Nero and Domitian: The Challenge to Poetry -- 6. Literature and the Governing Classes: From the Accession of Vespasian to the Death of Trajan -- 7. Literary Culture in Decline: The Antonine Years.".
• catalog title "Roman literary culture : from Cicero to Apuleius / Elaine Fantham.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".