Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early EmpireThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978. |
Contents
Contemporary analyses of decline | 6 |
IV | 10 |
The elder Pliny | 12 |
The poet and politics | 52 |
The dominance of Greek culture 1 | 102 |
From 100 B C to the time of Augustus | 108 |
imitatio and aemulatio | 193 |
Literature and society | 272 |
Select bibliography | 313 |
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