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Understanding Latin literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braund, Susanna Morton (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Understanding the ancient world.
Subjects:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Latin literature > Appreciation.
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?
  • Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature
  • 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: constructing Roman literature.