The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age: Canons, Transformations, Reception (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Book 51)

The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership. The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inthis canon rather stimulated creative tension, transforming the hibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of genres of poetry and prose. This book sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership