The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age: Canons, Transformations, Reception

The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110533227
• ISBN13: 9783110533224
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary