CLASSGEN 245 • Roman Receptions of Hellenistic Poetry
Susan Stephens
Latin literature began with Greek literature, and primarily with texts transmitted via imperial courts of the Greek east such as Alexandria and Pergamum. Aesthetic, formal, and theoretical aspects of transmission; cultural contexts of reception, including Ennius and Lucilius, Catullus and Cicero, Horace and Vergil, and Propertius and Ovid.
