Latin literature

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Braund, Susanna Morton
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
• Σειρά: Classical foundations.
• Θέματα: Latin literature > History and criticism.; Rome > In literature.; Electronic books.

 Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations vii -- About this book viii -- Acknowledgements xvi --1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid 1 --2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy 20 --3 What is Latin literature? 37 --4 What does studying Latin literature involve? 53 --5 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity 70 --6 Performance and spectacle, life and death 89 --7 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons 110 --8 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery 133 --9 Writing 'real' lives 152 --10 Introspection and individual identity 176 --11 Literary texture and intertextuality 190 --12 Metapoetics 207 --13 Allegory 225 --14 Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature 242 --15 Building Rome and building Roman literature 265 --Appendix A -- Extract from Darkness Visible by W.R.Johnson 275 --Appendix B -- Who's afraid of literary theory? by Simon Goldhill 277 --List of authors and texts 288 -- Time-line 294 -- List of translations used/adapted 296 -- Index of names and topics 298 -- Index ofpassages quoted 303.