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    Published : 2024-06-10
    Vol. 72 No. 3 (2024)

    The Issue of Periodization of the Latin Literature in the Time of the Roman Empire (1st And 2nd Century AD)

    Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak

    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8895-974X

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh24723.6

    Abstract

    The article deals with the problem of periodization of Latin literature at the time of the Roman Empire, especially in the first two centuries AD. Having assumed the cyclical nature of phenomena in the field of culture and literature, the author proposes to identify three successive historical-literary phases: [a] the early-imperial period (14–68 AD); [b] the Flavian or liberal period (69–117 AD); [c] the archaizing or Frontonian period (117–192 AD). The scrupulous analysis of the epic, lyric and dramatic works, written in Latin in the first and second centuries AD, clearly documents that the individual literary periods stand in clear opposition to the preceding and following phases. They contain dominant trends, current movements and literary phenomena, distinct from the ones which precede and follow. Ten main differences or similarities between the historical-literary periods are carefully presented in three attached tables (Nos. 1–3).

    Keywords:

    Roman Empire, Latin language, Roman literature, literary period, periodization



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    Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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