Author and Audience in Latin Literature by Tony Woodman

Author and Audience in Latin Literature by Tony Woodman

The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication' meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.

Woodman, Tony: - Tony Woodman has taught at the Universities of Newcastle, Leeds and Durham, and is currently Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published monographs and commentaries on various Latin subjects and authors, together with award-winning translations of Sallust and Tacitus. The present volume is the latest in a series which he has been co-editing since 1974.

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ISBN 13	9780521035781
ISBN 10	0521035783
Title	Author and Audience in Latin Literature
Author	Tony Woodman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2007-03-05
Number of pages	292
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