By Jan Papy, Yanick Maes, Wim Verbaal
This quantity bargains with the query of the continuity of Latin literature all through its historical past. For the 1st time, contributions are introduced jointly from all the 3 fields in the stories of Latin literature: Classical, Medieval and Neo-Latin, reflecting on difficulties such because the transmission of the Latin history, the production and perpetuation of a classical normativeness and the reactions opposed to it. The e-book is split into 3 components, resembling the theoretical precept of natural improvement: "Beginnings?", "Perfections?", "Transitions?", therefore wondering the validity of an analogous evolutionistic version. as a result of the a variety of issues of touch among Latin and the nationwide literatures, the quantity is of specific relevance for the stories of the eu literary historical past. individuals comprise: Davide Canfora, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, Sander Goldberg, Thomas Haye, Marc van der Poel, Michael Roberts, Francesco Stella, Wim Verbaal, Gregor Vogt-Spira, and Jan Ziolkowski.
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These may define the idea of tragedy for us, but Republican Rome enjoyed a Hellenistic form of tragedy that reveled in stage effects and values quite different from its classical ancestor. We therefore need to be thinking much less of Euripides and Aeschylus when assessing Dido than of Ennius, Pacuvius, and Accius, whose plays on the themes of Orestes and Pentheus had become classics of the Roman stage by the late first century. 15 And his readers, of course, knew that later kind of tragedy almost exclusively.
La Scrittura infinita. Bibbia e poesia in età romantica e contemporanea (Florence 2001) 1–17. , Die Odyssee. Epos zwischen Märchen und Roman (Munich 1988). 34 francesco stella A second solution, also minimally pursued, was manifested in poetry through the process of making a Latin calque of the biblical style, specifically Psalmic: this is the solution, for example, found in the text of the Papirus Barcinonensis published in 1968 by Roca-Puig, the so-called Psalmus Responsorius; or likewise in the hymns of Marius Victorinus.
See Suetonius, De grammaticis et rhetoribus, ed. A. Kaster (Oxford 1995) ad loc. , Verba Prisca. Die Anfänge des Archaisierens in der lateinischen Beredsamkeit und Geschichtsschreibung, Hypomnemata 25 (Göttingen 1970) 315–335, 217–223. Word lists facilitate archaism without the risk of actually being archaic. 3 T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex, ed. L. B. Smith (Madison 1942) 131–139 provide full discussion of archaism in Lucretius. For Ennius, see Annals of Quintus Ennius, ed. O. Skutsch (Oxford 1985) 227–228 (induperator), 454 (indu), 64–66 (olle).