Latin Poets and Roman Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19906765
AutoresJasper Griffin
Año1985
Fecha de publicación1985-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaLatin Poets and Roman Life (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBCPaperbacks (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781472539878
OpenAlexW4298251961
Open LibraryOL8982265M
ISBN9781472539878
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas122

This book studies the interrelation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterised by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylising events and emotions; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience and theories which deny that directness are criticised in this book as mistaken. The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety “eating, drinking, bathing, love” is a central subject but so is death. The book also discusses the uses of mythology, the influence of poetry on experience, and the interpretation of passages in the poems of Virgil. All Latin quoted is translated into English

Art · Interpretation (philosophy) · Latin Americans · Latin poetry · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Pleasure · Poetry · Repertoire · Subject (documents) · Variety (cybernetics) · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · ancient · Ancient - Rome · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · European history: BCE to c 500 CE · History and criticism · Intellectual life · Latin · Literary Criticism · Literature and society · Manners and customs in literature · Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval · Poets · Rome · Social life and customs