Variety The Life of a Roman Concept |
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| Author:
| Fitzgerald, William |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-29949-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $97.95 |
Book Description:
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The distinguished classicist William Fitzgerald examines the concept, value and practice of variety in Latin literature and its reception. He argues that variety was an important value in ancient aesthetic discourse and played a significant role in thinking about, among other things, nature, rhetoric, pleasure and empire. Fitzgerald explains how a discourse of variety passed from Latin writers into the post-classical world up to the modern age, in which words like "choice" and...
More DescriptionThe distinguished classicist William Fitzgerald examines the concept, value and practice of variety in Latin literature and its reception. He argues that variety was an important value in ancient aesthetic discourse and played a significant role in thinking about, among other things, nature, rhetoric, pleasure and empire. Fitzgerald explains how a discourse of variety passed from Latin writers into the post-classical world up to the modern age, in which words like "choice" and "diversity" have taken over its work, though with associative meanings that are much different.