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Hardcover Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Book

ISBN: 0199545677

ISBN13: 9780199545674

Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome

In Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Michele Lowrie examines how the Romans conceived of their poetic media. Song has links to the divine through prophecy, while writing offers a more quotisian, but also more realistic way of presenting what a poet does. In a culture of highly polished book production where recitation was the fashion, to claim to sing or to write was one means of self-definition. Lowrie assesses the stakes of poetic...

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