Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome

by Michèle Lowrie

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199545677
• ISBN13: 9780199545674
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"