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No cultural phenomenon can remain vital and evolve without a continuous integration of external elements. Instead of reading the process of appropriation in terms of ‘sources’ or ‘models’, the dynamics involved are better understood using more flexible categories such as creative reception, polyphony and dialogue. In every phase of its evolution, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages or (Early) Modern times, Latin literature had to face a double challenge, one from the past, and one from the present: although the models and heritage of the past always remained normative, contemporary demands had to be met too. The contributions in this volume analyze different moments of intercultural negotiation within the long history of Latin Literature.

Bellettrie. --- Latin literature --- History and criticism --- Latin philology --- Classical philology --- Latin language --- Latin literature - History and criticism - Congresses

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Latin literature --- Literary form --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Latin literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Literary form - History - To 1500 --- Empire romain --- Genres littéraires

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This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi, Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid.

Latin literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- Bellettrie. --- Latijn. --- Retorica. --- Latin literature --History and criticism. --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Ancient rhetoric --- Latin Literature. --- Roman comedy. --- Roman rhetoric. --- Women.

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In an ambitious overview of 1000 years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T.P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilising wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Presenting the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, he draws some unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasises the significance of the annual series of 'stage games', and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama and dance.

Latin literature --- Popular culture and literature --- History and criticism --- Latin literature. --- Popular culture and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Rome (Empire) --- Literature and popular culture --- Literature --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Rome --- Romi (Empire) --- Italy --- Byzantine Empire --- Latin literature - History and criticism --- Popular culture and literature - Rome

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What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian "barbarism." Set against history and material culture, Julio-Claudian, Flavian, Antonine, and Severan authors reveal a multivalent Egypt that defines Rome's increasingly diffuse identity while remaining a tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness. Vespasian's Alexandrian uprising, his recognition of Egypt as his power basis, and his patronage of Isis re-conceptualize Egypt past the ideology of Augustan conquest. The imperialistic exhilaration and moral angst attending Rome's Flavian cosmopolitanism find an expressive means in the geographically and semantically nebulous Nile. The rapprochement with Egypt continues in the second and early third centuries. The "Hellenic" Antonines and the African-Syrian Severans expand perceptions of geography and identity within an increasingly decentralized and diverse empire. In the political and cultural discourses of this period, the capacious symbolics of Egypt validate the empire's religious and ethnic pluralism.

Egypt -- In literature. --- Latin literature -- History and criticism. --- Latin literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Egypt --- In literature. --- Egypte dans la littérature --- Egypte dans la littérature --- Littérature latine --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Culture. --- Egypt. --- History. --- Orientalism. --- Rome.