Epic in Republican Rome

✍ Scribed by Sander M. Goldberg

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a major new study of the epic poetry of Republican Rome. Goldberg treats the creators of these now-fragmentary works not simply as predecessors of Vergil, but as pioneers and poets in their own right. But Goldberg goes beyond practical criticism, exploring in the literary experiments of Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, and Cicero issues of poetry and patronage, cultural assimilation and national ideology, modeling and originality that both come to characterize Roman literature of all periods and continue to shape modern responses to that literature. What emerges from Goldberg's study is both a fresh perspective on Vergil's achievement and new insights into the cultural dynamics of second-century Rome.

✦ Table of Contents

Epic in Republican Rome......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Texts and Abbreviations......Page 12
Epic in Republican Rome......Page 14
1. Ruins......Page 16
2. Reconstructions......Page 41
3. Saturnian Aesthetics......Page 71
4. Hexameter Aesthetics......Page 96
5. Poetry and Patronage......Page 124
6. Ciceronian Sirens......Page 148
7. Envoi......Page 171
Works Cited......Page 185
Concordances......Page 195
Index of Passages......Page 203
General Index......Page 206