By Federica Bessone,Marco Fucecchi

The development of a brand new Latin library among the tip of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was once something yet an inhibiting issue. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age exhibits that expertise of this canon particularly inspired artistic pressure. within the altering socio-cultural context, bold suggestions remodel the genres of poetry and prose. This quantity, which collects papers via influential students of early Imperial literature, sheds mild at the efficient dynamics of the traditional style process and will additionally supply insightful views to a non-classicist readership.

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