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The Politics of Latin Literature
Thomas N. Habinek
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Sachbuch / Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike
Beschreibung
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world.
Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Seneca. He shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century b.c. to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect, for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority, such as patriarchy, religious ritual, cultural identity, and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny, or existimatio.
Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures, aloof from mundane political concerns--a view, he shows, that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing.
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Cynicism (philosophy), Latrocinium, Disciplina, Mos maiorum, Culture war, Roman mythology, Erudition, Politique, Critical Essays (Orwell), Patronage in ancient Rome, Plautus, Sumptuary law, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, De Agri Cultura, The Postmodern Condition, Philosopher, Poetry of Catullus, New Criticism, Culture and Imperialism, Persius, English poetry, Roman historiography, Ars Poetica (Horace), Catullus, Ennius, G. (novel), Aphorism, Classical Latin, Augustan literature, Latin grammar, Augustan poetry, Romanticism, Principate, Sextus Pompey, Catiline, Literary criticism, Scholasticism, Ideology, Political philosophy, Livius Andronicus, Patrician (ancient Rome), Terence, Latinus, Latin literature, Roman conquest of Italy, Satire, Demetrius the Cynic, Poetry, Roman Government, Roman Religion, Barbarism (linguistics), Roman Empire, Writing, Perusine War, Rhetoric, The Philosopher, Paradoxa Stoicorum, Declamation, Epigram, Literature, Latin poetry, Tristia, Banditry, Comparative literature, Literary theory, Res publica, War, Classics, Suetonius, The Roman Revolution