Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome

by David O. Ross Jr.

In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject. Augustan poets were self-conscious and concerned with the works of their predecessors and contemporaries, yet there often appears a conflict between their professed poetics and what they in fact wrote. In his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521136695
• ISBN13: 9780521136693
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"