The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Lati... - 9780521273749

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late RepublicAuthor(s): E. J. Kenney, W. V. Clausen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521273749, 978-0521273749\nSynopsis\nThis volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of profoundly important developments, with enduring consequences for the subsequent history of Latin literature. Original and innovative in widely differing ways as was the work of Lucretius, Sallust and Caesar in particular, the scene is dominated, historically, by two figures: Cicero and Catullus. Cicero was a politician and a man of affairs as well as a man of latters, whose vast literary output reflects a range of intellectual interests unparalleled among surviving Roman writers; creator of a prose style the Quintilian regarded as synonymous with elo.