How the Romans came to have a literature, how that literature
reflected native and foreign impulses, and how it formed a legacy
for subsequent generations have become central questions in the
cultural history of the Republic. Constructing Literature in the
Roman Republic examines the problem of Rome's literary development
by shifting attention from Rome's writers to its readers. The
literature we traditionally call 'early' is seen to be a product
less of the mid-Republic, when poetic texts began to circulate,
than of the late Republic, when they were systematically collected,
canonized, and put to new social and artistic uses. Imposing on
texts the name and function of literature was often a retrospective
activity. This book explores the development of this literary
sensibility from the Romans' early interest in epic and drama,
through the invention of satire and the eventual enshrining of
books in the public collections that became important to Horace and
Ovid.
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