Latinity and Literary Society at Rome / / W. Martin Bloomer.
For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the ability to write and speak pure Latin was the mark of the true scholar. But although such skill was esteemed in medieval times, the language of ancient Rome was as various as the styles of slaves and masters.Latinity and Literary Society at Rome...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Contested Ground of Latinitas
- 1. Literary Censors and Marble Latin
- 2. Latin Experts and Roman Masters
- 3. The Rhetoric of Freedmen: The Fables of Phaedrus
- 4. Declamatory Pleading: A New Literary History
- 5. The Imperial Mask of Rhetoric: Animus and Vultus in the Annals of Tacitus
- 6. The Rival in the Text
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index