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Zusatztext 'Stroup's general argument is worth following. It leads! in the second half of the book! to an ambitious presentation of a shared 'text' of intellectual life! in which literary genres! modes of expression and creative achievements were extraordinarily elevated in cultivated society. Just as importantly! these provided some of the crucial foundations and principles on which the great writers of the next generation! Horace! Virgil and Ovid! were to build.' The Times Literary Supplement Informationen zum Autor Sarah Culpepper Stroup is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. Klappentext This book studies the distinctly 'late Republican' socio-textual culture recorded by this period's two most influential authors, Catullus and Cicero. Zusammenfassung This book studies the emergence! development! and florescence of a distinctly 'late Republican' socio-textual culture as recorded in the writings of this period's two most influential authors! Catullus and Cicero. This laid the foundations for those authors of the Principate and Empire who identified this period as their literary source and inspiration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. How to Write about Writing: 1. When? Otium as 'time to write'; 2. What? Munus as the 'gift of duty'; 3. Where? Libellus: polished and published; Part II. The Textualization of Display: 4. The problem with liberal performance; 5. From public display to textual display; 6. The poetics of literary obligation; Part III. The Materialization of the Text: 7. An object of Catullan affection; 8. Brutus: the dialogic personification of the Republican voice; Epilogue; Appendix: what 'society of patrons?' A prosopography of the players.
