Latin Literature

There have been very many exciting books on Latin literature in the past six months; here is at least a small selection. J. N. Adams presents an impressive volume asyndeton literature. Based thorough examination of different types asyndeta, with special focus asyndeta bimembria (‘asyndeta two members’), discusses ‘grammatical’ and semantic as well their characteristic structural patterns, followed by discussion genres texts, from laws prayers over texts early Republic to Augustan period. For historiography, Tacitus’ Histories Annals are included well. In course his discussion, debunks some long-held beliefs about which, he shows, not predominantly feature sacral or legal language, has often claimed. He also argues that asyndeton, rather than evoking speed rapidity, may instead invite reading slow deliberate, meaningful pauses between individual words (that most famous which printed dust jacket discussed 77–8, veni, vidi, vici [‘I came, I saw, conquered’], works example).