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1) Oratory
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public affairs and for advancing individual careers long before it acquired literary dimensions, which happened once orators decided to write up and circulate written versions of their speeches after delivery. Beginning with Appius Claudius Caecus (340-273 BC), this three-volume edition...
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The 'Loeb classical library' series 'Fragmentary Republican Latin' continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry. Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans as the founder of Latin literature, introducing tragedy and comedy, adapting Homer's 'Odyssey' into Saturnian verse, and composing a nationally important hymn for Juno. A meeting place for writers and actors was established...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular culture. Brought in 204 to Rome in the entourage of Cato, Ennius took up residence on the Aventine and, fluent in his native Oscan as well as Greek and Latin, became one of the first teachers to introduce Greek learning to Romans...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular culture. Brought in 204 to Rome in the entourage of Cato, Ennius took up residence on the Aventine and, fluent in his native Oscan as well as Greek and Latin, became one of the first teachers to introduce Greek learning to Romans...
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with Appius Claudius Caecus (340-273 BC), this three-volume edition covers the full range of speech-making--political, juridical, and epideictic (display)--and with the exceptions of Cato the Elder and Cicero includes all individuals for whom speech-making is attested and for whose speeches quotations, descriptive testimonia, or historiographic recreations survive."--Publisher's website.
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