The Poet and his Audience in the Augustan Age
by Kenneth Quinn, Toronto
Contents
|
I. The Poet as Performer |
76 |
1. Introduction |
76 |
2. Roman Books |
80 |
3. Oral Performance |
83 |
4. The Role of the Written Text |
88 |
II. The Literary Critics |
93 |
1. Introduction |
93 |
2. Crates of Mallos |
97 |
3. Valerius Cato |
108 |
4. L. Crassicius |
110 |
5. Q. Caecilius Epirota |
110 |
6. The First Century AD |
112 |
III. The Patrons of Literature |
116 |
1. Introduction |
116 |
2. Archias |
122 |
3. Libraries |
125 |
4. The Status of Literature |
128 |
5. The Social Standing of the Critics |
130 |
6. A New Context for Literature |
135 |
7. The Concept of litterae |
136 |
IV. The Poet's Audience |
140 |
1. Contexts for Performance in the Augustan Age |
140 |
2. Public and Semi-Public Performance |
145 |
3. The recitatio |
158 |
4. The Role of Prose |
165 |
V. Excursus |
167 |
1. Excursus on dictare |
167 |
2. Excursus on Publication |
169 |
3. Excursus on Horace and the Critics |
171 |
4. Excursus on the 'Collegium Poetarum' |
173 |
| Bibliography |
176 |
