Latin literature
Subtitle: a history
By: Gian Biago Conte ; translated by Joseph B. Solodow ; revised by Don Fowler and Glenn W. Most.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 827
Subjects: Latin literature -- History and criticism.; Rome -- Civilization -- Historiography.; Rome -- In literature.
Description: This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, Latin Literature: A History is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades.

From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the sixth century and the Venerable Bede in the seventh, Latin Literature offers a wide-ranging panorama of all major Latin authors. Including names, dates, edition citations, and detailed summaries, the work combines the virtues of an encyclopedia with the critical intelligence readers have come to expect from Italy's leading Latinist, Gian Biagio Conte.

Many of the entries - those on Virgil and Petronius, for example - provide elegantly compact formulations of work on the very frontier of current study, and virtually all entries offer something of interest for the lay reader and expert alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Letteratura latina.