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The ghosts of the past : Latin literature, the dead, and Rome's transition to a principate /
"To understand the literary life of the Roman dead, The Ghosts of the Past develops a new perspective on Latin literature's interaction with Roman culture. Drawing on the insights of sociology, anthropology, and performance theory, Basil Dufallo argues that authors of the late Republic and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The dead as living
- Oratory and magic in Republican Rome
- Domesticae furiae : Cicero's tragic universe
- The Second Philippic as cultural resistance
- Propertian elegy as "restored behavior"
- Vergil's alternatives to Republican performance
- Conclusion: The living as the dead.