Latinity and Literary Society at Rome / W. Martin Bloomer
1997, First Edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432825
ISBN: 0812233905
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. Subjects; Books and reading Rome. Latin language Social aspects Rome. Latin literature History and criticism. Literature and society Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient.
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