Texts and violence in the Roman world /
From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: reading Roman violence / Monica R. Gale and J.H.D. Scourfield
- Comic violence and the citizen body / David Konstan and Shilpa Raval
- Contemplating violence: Lucretius' De rerum natura / Monica R. Gale
- Discipline and punish: Horatian satire and the formation of the self / Paul Allen Miller
- Make war not love: Militia amoris and domestic violence in Roman elegy / Donncha O'Rourke
- Violence and resistance in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Carole E. Newlands
- Tales of the unexpurgated (cert PG): Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) / John Henderson
- Dismemberment and the critics: Seneca's Phaedra / Duncan F. Kennedy
- Violence and alienation in Lucan's Pharsalia: the case of Caesar / Efrossini Spentzou
- Tacitus and the language of violence / Bruce J. Gibson
- Cruel narrative: Apuleius' Golden ass / William Fitzgerald
- Violence and the Christian heroine: two narratives of desire / J.H.D. Scourfield.