The deliberate adoption of a 'weaker' voice by a speaker not obliged to do so is a widespread phenomenon in Latin literature. This volume traces this strategy across a range of genres, periods, and authors, exploring how it establishes, perpetuates,...
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The deliberate adoption of a 'weaker' voice by a speaker not obliged to do so is a widespread phenomenon in Latin literature. This volume traces this strategy across a range of genres, periods, and authors, exploring how it establishes, perpetuates, and challenges hierarchies and values in very different literary and cultural-political contexts. Cover -- Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Latin Literature's Complex Inferiorities -- 1: Claiming Inferiority: Weakness into Strength -- 2: How Do You Solve a Problem like Horace?: On Roman Philhellenism and Post-Colonial Critique -- 3: Blackface and Drag in the Palliata -- PUNIC WARS -- CIVIL STATUS, GENDER, AND COLOUR -- BLACKFACE IN THE FORUM ROMANUM -- (1) Syrians -- (2) Africans -- VISUAL EFFECTS -- FLAUBERT'S SADNESS -- 4: Social Inferiority and Poetic Inferiority-Martial's Revenge in his Epigrams: A Commentary on Martial 5.13 -- POVERTY OF THE POET AND LITERARY VOCATION -- ROMAN URBANITY AND SPANISH RUSTICITY -- LITERARY IMMORTALITY AND THE 'WEAKER VOICE' OF THE EPIGRAM -- CONCLUSION -- 5: Drawing Blanks: The Pale Shades of 'Phaedrus' and 'Juvenal' -- GAMING THE NAME -- SHOOTING BLANKS -- DEVELOPING A COMPLEX -- 6: The Creative Superiority of Self-Reproach: Horace's Ars Poetica -- THE CULTURED CRINGE -- HERE'S THE RUB -- START AS YOU MEAN TO DRONE ON -- GROW UP, AND ACT YOUR AGE -- DOWN FROM YOUR HIGH HORSE -- HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE (TO CONCLUDE . . . ) -- 7: 'The Noise, and the People': Popular clamor and Political Discourse in Latin Historiography -- 8: Loud and Proud: The Voice of the praeco in Roman Love Elegy -- PRAECONES IN ROMAN LIFE AND HISTORY -- PRAECONIUM IN ROMAN LOVE ELEGY -- PRAECONIUM IN OTHER CONTEXTS -- HORACE -- ITEMIZED PRAISE OF THE FEMALE BODY -- CONCLUSION -- 9: Hidden Voices: Homoerotic Colour in Horace's Odes -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERARY TRADITION -- HORATIAN HOMOEROTICISM IN ODES 1-3 -- LIGURINUS IN ODES 4 -- CONCLUSION -- 10: On Not Being Beautiful -- 11: From Adultery to Incest: Messalina and Agrippina as Sexual Aggressors in Tacitus' Annals -- MESSALINA.
"[...] the eponymous conference, held under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 4 and 5 September 2014, [...]" (Acknowledgments)
