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Feeney, Denis

Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Harvard University Press, 2016

35,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
2016
ISBN
0674055233
Luogo di stampa
Cambridge MA
Autore
Feeney, Denis
Editori
Harvard University Press
Soggetto
LATIN LITERATURE GREEK INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE CLASSICS
Descrizione
S
Sovracoperta
No
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Brossura
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

"We take the existence of a literature in the Latin language for granted, but the emergence of this literature is a very strange moment in history. Latin literature should probably not have come into being in the form it took. This book explores the opening phase of Latin literature, from 240 to 140 BCE. The period begins with the first stage productions of Greek plays translated into Latin, which were also the first translations of Greek literary texts into any other language; it closes with the Romans in possession of a large-scale literature in Latin based on the literature of the Greeks, together with a developed historical tradition about their past and a mythology that connected them to the inheritance of the Greeks. Feeney shows how it allowed Romans to systematically take over Greek forms of tragedy, comedy, and epic, making them their own and giving birth to what has become known as Latin literature. 368p. bibliography

Edizione: uncorrected proof.