Latin Poets and Roman Life

by Jasper Griffin

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In Latin Poets and Roman Life Jasper Griffin studies the inter-relation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterized by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylizing events and emotion; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience. Theories which deny that directness are criticized in this book as mistaken. The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1853994308

ISBN13:9781853994302

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:Bristol Classical Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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