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This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature
and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138).
With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the
Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among others,
the eighteen chapters offer not just innovative readings of
literary (and some 'less literary') texts, but a collaborative
enquiry into the networks and culture in which they are embedded.
The book brings together established and novel methodologies to
explore the connections, conversations and silences between these
texts and their authors, both on and off the page. The scholarly
dialogues that result not only shed fresh light on the dynamics of
literary production and consumption in the 'High Roman Empire', but
offer new provocations to students of intertextuality and
interdiscursivity across classical literature. How can and should
we read textual interactions in their social, literary and cultural
contexts?
Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin
poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings
together two monuments of the High Empire, Quintilian's Institutio
oratoria ('Training of the orator') and Pliny's Epistles, to reveal
a spectacular project of textual and ethical imitation. As a young
man Pliny had studied with Quintilian. In the Epistles he
meticulously transforms and subsumes his teacher's masterpiece,
together with poetry and prose ranging from Homer to Tacitus'
Dialogus de oratoribus. In teasing apart Pliny's rich intertextual
weave, this book reinterprets Quintilian through the eyes of one of
his sharpest readers, radically reassesses the Epistles as a work
of minute textual artistry, and makes a major intervention in
scholarly debates on intertextuality, imitation and rhetorical
culture at Rome. The result is a landmark study with far-reaching
implications for how we read Latin literature.
Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman
prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this
collection of 'private' letters is now finding recognition as a
rich and rewarding work in its own right. The second book is a
typically varied yet taut suite of miniatures, including among its
twenty letters the trial of Marius Priscus and Pliny's famous
portrait of his Laurentine villa. This edition, the first to
address a complete book of Epistles in over a century, presents a
Latin text together with an introduction and commentary intended
for students, teachers and scholars. With clear linguistic
explanations and full literary analysis, it invites readers to a
fresh appreciation of Pliny's lettered art.
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical
overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get
here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an
extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these
questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field,
but to give snapshots of the discipline from different
perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The
Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with
Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas
of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin
literature within its global context from late antiquity to
Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE
corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history,
philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought,
Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception,
intertextuality, theory).
This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature
and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138).
With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the
Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among others,
the eighteen chapters offer not just innovative readings of
literary (and some 'less literary') texts, but a collaborative
enquiry into the networks and culture in which they are embedded.
The book brings together established and novel methodologies to
explore the connections, conversations and silences between these
texts and their authors, both on and off the page. The scholarly
dialogues that result not only shed fresh light on the dynamics of
literary production and consumption in the 'High Roman Empire', but
offer new provocations to students of intertextuality and
interdiscursivity across classical literature. How can and should
we read textual interactions in their social, literary and cultural
contexts?
This volume brings together some of the best and most influential
work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger in recent
decades. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary
aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the nineteen classic
articles included here offer a wide and representative range of
approaches to Pliny, from prosopography and social history to
intertextuality and self-representation. Topics include Pliny's
villas, friends, and career, alongside literary and historical
readings of some of his most famous letters, such as those on the
eruption of Vesuvius and the torture of Christians, and
correspondence with and about his wife Calpurnia, his uncle Pliny
the Elder, his rival Regulus, the historian Tacitus and the emperor
Trajan. The volume includes several chapters currently out of print
or scarcely available (such as Birley's on Pliny's career and Eco's
on the first Vesuvius letter), one which has been wholely rewritten
(Cameron on reception) and one newly translated from German (Schenk
on intertextuality). In addition, most have been updated by their
authors, and translations of all Latin and other foreign languages
have been added. A substantial introductory chapter by the editors
offers the first full account of the history of scholarship on the
Epistles from the birth of printing to the present day, summarises
important recent work in languages other than English, and
contextualises the articles included within the broader context of
modern approaches to Pliny. Pliny the Younger's ten books of
Epistles have only recently moved into the mainstream of classical
studies from their traditional role as fodder for Latin beginners
or filing cabinet for Roman historians. This volume marks and
consolidates that shift by reprinting nineteen of the best and most
influential contributions on Pliny and his Epistles from recent
decades, newly edited, revised and/or translated into English. It
begins with a new, substantial account of the history of Plinian
scholarship and survey of the contemporary scholarly landscape.
Together this collection offers a detailed study of the man, the
events of his time, his career, his friends, even his possessions,
and above all the varied artistic and ideological facets of his
letters.
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