Latin literature
This work provides an introduction to aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture.
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- Full title :Latin literature / Susanna Morton Braund.
Summary
This work provides an introduction to aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 304 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0415195179, 9780415195171, 0415195187, 9780415195188, 9786610146789, 6610146780, 0203996852, 9780203996850
- oclc:ocm46976490
- 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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