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dc.contributor.authorGeue, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-16T15:30:05Z
dc.date.available2023-02-16T15:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-01
dc.identifier.citationGeue , T 2022 , ' Rush job : slavery and brevity in the early Roman principate ' , Cambridge Classical Journal , vol. 68 , pp. 83 - 111 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1750270522000082en
dc.identifier.issn1750-2705
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 279435937
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 24c4e9ad-0607-45a5-97e5-7fb12b765fe0
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:279450CA91E41E3A747E346AD3208E39
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-0148-3393/work/112711476
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000792149600001
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85142268700
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26997
dc.description.abstractThe upswing in brief forms of literature in the early Roman principate is marked. From Ovid to Velleius Paterculus, Phaedrus to Valerius Maximus, this aesthetic trend seems to transcend genre. Such a phenomenon has thus far been understood as arising from either the pressures of literary tradition or the transformations in the organisation of elite knowledge. This article disagrees. It posits a new prospective causality behind the eruption in brevity, namely the state of slavery and its time-conscious way of being in the world. The article performs a close comparative reading of Phaedrus’ Fables alongside Velleius Paterculus’ Compendium of Roman History to show how brevity and its suspension can be understood as formal constraints, acts of service and redemptive aesthetic coping modes – all determined by the historical conditions of enslavement. It concludes with a coda on the general association of poetry with bondage and constraint in the late Republic and early Empire.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCambridge Classical Journalen
dc.rightsCopyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Cambridge Philological Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citeden
dc.subjectPA Classical philologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectACen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccPAen
dc.titleRush job : slavery and brevity in the early Roman principateen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empireen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Classicsen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1750270522000082
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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