By Tony Woodman, Jonathan Powell
The connection among the writer and his viewers has got a lot severe recognition from students in non-classical disciplines but the character of a lot historical literature and of its 'publication' intended that audiences in precedent days have been extra speedy to their authors than within the smooth international. This ebook includes essays through wonderful students at the numerous potential during which Latin authors communicated successfully with their audiences. The authors and works lined 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. participants have supplied exact analyses of specific passages with a purpose to throw mild at the many alternative ways that authors catered for his or her audiences via pleasurable, manipulating and thwarting their expectancies; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn jointly the problems raised through those contributions and feature tried to put them in a suitable serious context.
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1 we hear of a certain Curianus who, after being disinherited by his mother, tried on her death to recover the money. Thanks to Pliny the other legatees returned a quarter of what they had received. Pliny, though not asked to do so, did the same. He now comments (10—11) 'Not only have I reaped the rewards of a good conscience, I have also enhanced my reputation; for, as a result of what I did, that very Curianus has remembered me in his will, thus paying a remarkable tribute to my action, which, unless I flatter myself, was in keeping with the old tradition' (cf.
Pliny's generosity cannot be doubted, but the way he spoke of it strikes us as bizarre. 19. Pliny is giving Romatius Firmus 300,000 sesterces to help him gain admission to the equestrian class. The donor's motives are carefully listed: Romatius came from the same town as Pliny, went to the same school, and was a companion of his boyhood; furthermore, Romatius' father was a close friend of Pliny's mother and uncle. Pliny then adds (3) ' The length of our friendship will ensure that you will not forget this favour.
Not, of course, that it would matter much to Cicero's ultimate reputation, but it would do much to soothe his impatience. Furthermore (for, as we know, Cicero is also thinking of Lucceius' interests), a separate monograph would have an artistic advantage. Since the writer's attention would be concentrated on one theme and one personality, the account would be — what? Perhaps more compact and economical? Or perhaps more unified in the manner recommended by Aristotle ? But no. It would all be that much richer and more embellished {uberiora atque ornatiora).