Introductory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23488646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Browning (Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Pages | 681-691 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/chol9780521210430.036 |
| OpenAlex | W4210950790 |
| ISBN | 9780521210430 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 117 |
This chapter explores the period that extends roughly from the middle of the third century to the middle of the fifth century AD. The period, that of Diocletian and Constantine saw the re-establishment of firm central power in the empire on a new basis. By Constantine's death stability had been restored in the military, administrative and economic spheres. Literature and art began to find patrons and the pen began to replace the sword as an instrument of persuasion. The period, in the first half of the fifth century, saw the political separation between the eastern and western parts of the Roman empire, which had been a temporary expedient in the past, become permanent. Christian writers, with their essentially historical view of the world, were more sensitive to the signs of change than the pagan contemporaries. Augustine's City of God in its way marks the end of the ancient world in the west as clearly as do the great barbarian invasions.
Augustinian Studies and Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Philosophy
History of Classical Scholarship
Books And Readers In Ancient Greece And Rome
Roman Documents from the Greek East
The medieval tradition of Seneca's letters
Roman declamation in the late Republic and early Empire.
Beobachtungen zur Theokritnachwirkung bei Vergil.
The senatorial aristocracy in the later Roman empire
Greek poetry in Cicero's prose writing
The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries
Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome during the Late Republic and Early Principate
Claudian
Generic composition in Greek and Roman poetry
Tradition and originality in Roman poetry.
Education in Ancient Rome
Vergil and Classical Hexameter Poetry
Poetry and Rhetoric in Lucretius
Bemerkungen zu Senecas Thyestes
Lucretius and the History of Epicureanism
The Fourth Georgic , Virgil, and Rome
Die Plautinischen „bacchides“ Und Menanders „dis Exapaton“
Aeneas and the Stoic Ideal
L. Varius Rufus, De Morte (Frs. 1–4 Morel)
The Intellectual Background of Cicero's Rhetorica
Zur Eigenart der römischen Komödie
Mécène. Essai de biographie spirituelle
Alien Wisdom
The ‘Dirae’
L' Epoque de Neron et ses controverses ideologiques
Ovid's Cantare and Cicero's Cantores Euphorionis
The Quarrel between Lucan and Nero
Roman Literary Theory and Criticism
Catullus 66. 75-88
Perizonius, Niebuhr and the Character of Early Roman Tradition
Elegiacs by Gallus from Qaṣr Ibrîm
The Roman Calendar, 190-168 B. C
The Proem of the Annales of Ennius
Ekδoσiς
Doctvs Lvcretivs
The Latin Accent
Untersuchungen zur Selbstdarstellung älterer römischer Dichter
Prologe und Akteinteilung in Senecas Tragödien
Die Augustuspanegyrik des Horaz in formalhistorischer Sicht
Cicero
Some Problems of Punctuation in the Latin Hexameter
The Copa
The Enclosing Word Order in the Latin Hexameter. I
Some Critical Observations on Valerius Flaccus' Argonavtica I
A Pattern of Word Order in Latin Poetry
The Copa —II
The Function and Structure of Virgil's Catalogue in Aeneid 7
Ovidius Prooemians
The Manuscript Tradition of Seneca's Tragedies
Lucan's Grove
Lucretius and the Stoics
The Meaning of the Pharsalia
The Letters of Pliny
The Presentation and Dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams
Post-Augustan Poetry from Seneca to Juvenal
The Collegium Poetarum
Latin Poetry
A Greek Satyricon
The Vocabulary of Fear in Latin Epic Poetry
Gallus, the Bucolics, and the Ending of the Fourth Georgic
Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity
Lucan's Use of Virgilian Reminiscence
Lucan and His Roman Critics
The Opportunities for Dramatic Performances in the Time of Plautus and Terence
The Political Background To Ovid's Tristia 2
Cluvius Rufus in the Histories of Tacitus
The Dating of the Ciris
Aspects of Statius' Epithalamion
Multiple-Correspondence Similes in the Aeneid
Style and Tradition in Catullus
The Vocabulary of the Speeches in Tacitus‘ Historical Works
Propertius and Horace
Alexander Helios and the Golden Age
Le mythe de Pompée et les Pompéiens sous les Césars
Ancient Scholarship and Virgil's Use of Republican Latin Poetry. I
Observations on the Style of Varro
The Dirae
"The Expression of Stoic Ideas in the "Aeneid
Die romische Liebeselegie als werbende Dichtung
"Virgil and the "Odyssey
"Horace on the Origins of "Satura
Studies in Classical Satire and Related Literary Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |