Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace

by Stephen H. Harrison and Stephen J. Harrison

S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019920358X
• ISBN13: 9780199203581
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"