The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the
foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of
being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would
recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in
the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman
empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in
the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a
new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as
an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist
scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the
formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics
in Late Antiquity. The Poetics of Late Latin Literature attempts to
capture the excitement and vibrancy of the living ancient tradition
reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of
great Latin writers mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries AD.
A series of the most distinguished expert voices in later Latin
poetry as well as some of the most exciting new scholars have been
specially commissioned to write new papers for this volume.
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