Christopher Whitton

The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose

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Produktbeschreibung

A landmark study of Latin prose intertextuality, radically reinterpreting Pliny's Epistles as a brilliant transformation of Quintilian..

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 976g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476577
• ISBN-10: 1108476570
• Artikelnr.: 54015619

Autorenporträt

Christopher Whitton is Senior Lecturer in Classical Literature at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His publications include a commentary on Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II (Cambridge, 2013), The 'Epistles' of Pliny (co-edited with Roy Gibson, 2016) and Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96-138 (co-edited with Alice König, Cambridge, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Two scenes from the life of an artist
2. Setting the stage
3. Brief encounters
4. Dancing with dialectic
5. Through the looking-glass
6. On length, in brief (Ep. 1.20)
7. Letters to Lupercus
8. Studiorum secessus (Ep. 7.9)
9. Docendo discitur
10. Reflections of an author
11. Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus
12. Beginnings.