Latin literature

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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

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Full title :Latin literature / Susana Morton Braund

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Publication Date:2001

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001

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Description:Online Ressource (320 Seiten = 1695 kB)

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ISBN:0203996852, 9780203996850, 0415195179, 9780415195171, 0415195187, 9780415195188
oclc:ocn836367275
Dewey Decimal:870.9001

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;.