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Roman Literary Cultures : Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle /

"Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Keith, Alison Mary (Autor, Editor ), Edmondson, J. C. (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • R. Elaine Fantham: List of Publications
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Roman Literary Cultures
  • Part I: Domestic Politics
  • 2 Varro on the Battle against Moisture in the Roman domus (A Note on Men. Fr. 531-2)
  • 3 Rape, the Family, and the "Father of the Fatherland" in Ovid, Fasti 2
  • 4 Naming the Elegiac Mistress: Elegiac Onomastics in Roman Inscriptions
  • 5 In Manus: Pliny's Letters and the Arts of Mastery
  • Part II: Revolutionary Poetics
  • 6 Ovid's Circe and the Revolutionary Power of carmina in the Remedia amoris
  • 7 Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • 8 Narrative Transitions in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9
  • 9 Elegy and Epic in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile
  • 10 Reading Aeneas through Hannibal: The Poetics of Revenge and the Repetitions of History
  • Part III: Civic Spectacle
  • 11 The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378-82 Ribbeck 3
  • 12 Knowledge, Power, and Republicanism in Lucan
  • 13 The Rites of Others
  • 14 Rituals of Reciprocity: Staging Gladiatorial munera in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
  • Contributors
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.