Author and Audience in Latin Literature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521383072 ISBN 13: 9780521383073

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication' meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.

About this title

Book Description:

This is a book of essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero (as both orator and letter-writer), Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521383072
• ISBN 13: 9780521383073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Woodman Tony, Powell Jonathan