A Companion to Latin Literature [Paperback]

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• Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major genres, and key themes
  
• Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, from Ennius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius
  
• Includes invaluable reference material – dictionary entries on authors, chronological chart of political and literary history, and an annotated bibliography
  
• Serves as both a discursive literary history and a general reference book

List of Figures viii

Chronological Table ix

Notes on Contributors xii

Preface xvi

Reference Works: Abbreviations xvii

Introduction: Constructing Latin Literature 1
Stephen Harrison

PART I PERIODS 13

1 The Early Republic: the Beginnings to 90 BC 15
Sander M. Goldberg

2 The Late Republican/Triumviral Period: 90–40 BC 31
D. S. Levene

3 The Augustan Period: 40 BC–AD 14 44
Joseph Farrell

4 The Early Empire: AD 14–68 58
Roland Mayer

5 The High Empire: AD 69–200 69
Bruce Gibson

PART II GENRES 81

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