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.

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• 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.