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This quantity offers with the query of the continuity of Latin literature all through its heritage. For the 1st time, contributions are introduced jointly from all of the 3 fields in the reviews of Latin literature: Classical, Medieval and Neo-Latin, reflecting on difficulties such because the transmission of the Latin background, the construction and perpetuation of a classical normativeness and the reactions opposed to it. The ebook is split into 3 components, equivalent to the theoretical precept of natural improvement: "Beginnings?", "Perfections?", "Transitions?", hence wondering the validity of the same evolutionistic version. as a result quite a few issues of touch among Latin and the nationwide literatures, the amount is of specific relevance for the experiences of the ecu literary heritage. members contain: Davide Canfora, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, Sander Goldberg, Thomas Haye, Marc van der Poel, Michael Roberts, Francesco Stella, Wim Verbaal, Gregor Vogt-Spira, and Jan Ziolkowski.
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9 Atticus will later point out the absurdity of casting Cato as the Roman Lysias (risum vix tenebam, cum Attico Lysiae Catonem nostrum comparabas, 293), but there is more to this passage than a clumsy attempt to tailor the history of Roman oratory to the requirements of a Greek evolutionary model. 10 The inadequacy of the past makes it possible to 9 Cicero, Brutus 68: ‘Antiquior est huius sermo et quaedam horridiora verba. Ita enim tum loquebantur. ’ 10 Cf. 171–181 on composition. , Prolegomena zu einer ‘Phänomenologie’ der römischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung von den Anfängen bis Quintilian, Hypomnemata 130 (Göttingen 2000) 106–116.
Probably, one of the most innovative contributions by the recent literary theories to the historiography of antique literature, is the assumption that interference among cultures can also be a criterion for literary analysis. This intuition, already elaborated by Momigliano (Alien Wisdom 1975), is now widespread in historiographic publications, even though it is not yet widely accepted in literary interpretations. If it is true, as the Russian critics have long been underlining, that ‘it is not possibile for a culture to progress without an external stream of texts’ and that every external contribution ‘is a factor of acceleration in the literary development’,4 then it might become possible to think about a literary history which is finally free from the romantic and colonial concept of ‘source’.
11 As in the Brutus, discussion of the past comes couched in the critical vocabulary of the present (here crasse, illepide, and just above this passage, emendata, pulchra). The truth of the criticism is problematic. Horace may only be inventing this battle between ancients and moderns. 43–54), the fact of the Augustan aesthetic settlement remains uncontested. The utility of the ‘ancients’ for Horace as a point of reference for a defense of modernity is thus all the more striking. From the perspective of our own modernity, however, the ‘archaic’ label entails more dangers than advantages.