A Handbook of Latin Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Death of St. Augustine - Softcover

H. J. Rose; E. Courtney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865163170 ISBN 13: 9780865163171

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

A Handbook of Latin Literature (reprint of the 1954 edition) is a concise, yet comprehensive survey of Latin literature that provides brief biographical information about ancient authors from the earliest to the Christian and pagan writers, analyses of the most prominent works, and the historical and cultural context. It also places the works alongside their contemporaries, rates their relative importance in their own times and later periods, and explores their influence on subsequent literatures and Western Civilization. Each known work is discussed and analyzed in terms of content, chronology, genre, significance, meaning, genetic relationship to other works, and ancient and modern scholarship.

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About this title

From the Publisher:

A companion edition to A Handbook of Greek Literature, A Handbook of Latin Literature is an excellent resource for anyone who reads, studies, teaches, or writes literature. The Handbook:
- is a portable, affordable, and comprehensive treatment of the authors, works and times
- contains astute and sensitive analysis
- covers all authors of pagan and Christian literature including: Augustine, Boethius, Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Plautus, Servius, Terence, and Vergil
- includes an extensive bibliography by Professor E. Courtney
- has an index of names, places, and terms

From the Back Cover:

"It may be questioned whether this large field has ever been covered so fully and in such handy form; Professor Rose analyzes the contents of almost every single work or book written within a long work . . . His book in fact has its value as a dictionary of Latin literature besides that of a history." Times (London) Literary Supplement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0865163170
• ISBN 13: 9780865163171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 582