Pestilence and the body politic in Latin literature /

Scientists, journalists, novelists and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to...

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Main Author: Gardner, Hunter H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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