This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry and the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture
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This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry and the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; About this book; Chapter 1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid; Chapter 2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy; Chapter 3 What is Latin literature?; Chapter 4 What does studying Latin literature involve?; Chapter 5 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity; Chapter 6 Performance and spectacle,life and death; Chapter 7 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons; Chapter 8 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery; Chapter 9 Writing 'real' lives
Chapter 10 Introspection and individual identityChapter 11 Literary texture and intertextuality; Chapter 12 Metapoetics; Chapter 13 Allegory; Chapter 14 Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature; Chapter 15 Building Rome and building Roman literature; Appendix A Extract from Darkness Visible; Appendix B Who's afraid of literary theory?; Authors and texts; Time-line; Translations used/adapted; Index of names and topics; Index of passages quoted;
