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Chapter 4 - Song of Myself: The Personal Voice in Republican Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Laurel Fulkerson  and
Jeffrey Tatum
Laurel Fulkerson
Affiliation:
Florida State University
Jeffrey Tatum
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington
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The fourth chapter introduces several ‘personal voices’, immediately complicating our understanding of how personally to take them: the authors discussed here seem to offer us an unmitigated look at their inner lives, but Latin literature does not, for the most part, work like that. Through discussions of Lucilius, in-depth treatment of Catullus, and exploration of the letters of Cicero, we show the public nature even of what seems most personal.

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LuciliussatireCatullusCallimachusEnniusRoman politicsCiceroepistolographyVarroobscenity
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A History of Latin Literature From its Beginnings to the Age of Augustus , pp. 110 - 147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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