Disorienting empire : Republican Latin poetry's wanderers /
Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Double vision : Plautus's Menaechmi and Rome's nascent empire
- Wayward sons and wandering Bacchic revels : Terence's Heautontimorumenos
- Wandering atoms, Roman error, and poetic tradition in Lucretius
- Catullan wanderings : traversing the empire, traversing the self
- Caesar's mistakes and Horace's errores : publicizing Octavian's authority in satires, book 1
- Epilogue: The Aeneid's reorientations.