Latin literature

Latin literature

by Braund, Susanna Morton

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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. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. They are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts, and with a useful exploration of the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the the…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Latin literature / Susanna Morton Braund.

Summary

This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. They are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts, and with a useful exploration of the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2002.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) : : illustrations, map

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0415195187, 9780415195188, 0203996852, 9780203996850, 0415195179, 9780415195171, 9786610146789, 6610146780, 9781134646777, 1134646771, 9781134646722, 1134646720, 9781134646760, 1134646763
  • oclc:ocn264456332
  • LC Classification:PA6003
  • Dewey Decimal:870.9

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Latin literature Latin literature -- History and critici… Literary Criticism -- General Literature Littérature latine -- Histoire et criti… Rome -- In literature Rome (Empire) Rome dans la littérature TRAVEL -- Special Interest

Writers

Braund, Susanna Morton

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