| Series |
Classical foundations
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-297) and index. |
| Contents |
Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid. -- Role models for Roman women and men in Livy. -- What is Latin literature? -- What does studying Latin literature involve? -- Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity. -- Performance and spectacle, life and death. -- Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons. -- Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery. -- Writing 'real' lives. -- Introspection and individual identity. -- Literary texture and intertextuality. -- Metapoetics. -- Allegory. -- Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature. -- Building Rome and building Roman literature. -- Extract from Darkness visible / by W.R. Johnson. -- Who's afraid of literary theory? / by Simon Goldhill. |
| Subject |
Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Rome -- In literature.
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| Collection |
Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
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| ISBN |
0415195179 (hb) |
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0415195187 (pbk.) |
| Description |
xvi, 304 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. |
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