"C. A.J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies more as Neronian literature than as Roman reworkings of Attic drama. In both literary and ethical aspects the tragedies are products of the Neronian age and primarily of a Latin literary tradition. It is a feature of Neronian lit…
Cicero is known as Rome's greatest orator, which was precisely his plan. This book shows how Cicero used culturally ambitious works on the nature and history of oratory to fashion his identity as the supreme Roman public speaker and stylist.
"Making a New Man investigates how Cicero, Rome's most influential orator (106-43 B.C.E.), used a series of treatises on rhetorical theory in order to mould his identity within Roman culture. John Dugan argues that Cicero's rhetorical works - far from being disinterested, purely…
This book is an advanced introduction to Horace that treats his whole poetic career and all of the genres in which he worked. Oliensis focuses on the social dimensions of Horace's poetry, considering how Horace shaped his poems and his books to promote his authority while also p…
"Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics explores the identity, role, and subjectivity of the speaker in Wordsworth's finest and best-known longer lyrics - "Tintern Abbey," "Resolution and Independence," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," and "Elegiac Stanzas." Because Wordsworth is the …
Russia in the 20th century experienced two massive socio-political upheavals, in 1917 & again in 1991. This book examines the ways in which Russians created, discarded & disguised identities that would either advance their interests or place them at risk in the wake of these rev…
