Variety the Life of a Roman Concept - The Life of a Roman Concept

Zusammenfassung The distinguished classicist William Fitzgerald examines the concept! value and practice of variety in Latin literature and its reception. He argues that variety was an important value in ancient aesthetic discourse and played a significant role in thinking about! among other things! nature! rhetoric! pleasure and empire. Fitzgerald explains how a discourse of variety passed from Latin writers into the post-classical world up to the modern age! in which words like choice and diversity have taken over its work! though with associative meanings that are much different."

Product details

• Authors: William FitzGerald
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780226299495
• ISBN: 978-0-226-29949-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval