Latin LiteraturePsychology Press, 2002 - 304 pagine This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. They are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts, and with a useful exploration of the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture. The versatile structure of the book makes it suitable both for individual and class use. |
Sommario
Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid | 1 |
Role models for Roman women and men in Livy | 20 |
What is Latin literature? | 37 |
What does studying Latin literature involve? | 53 |
Making Roman identity multiculturalism militarism and masculinity | 70 |
Performance and spectacle life and death | 89 |
Intersections of power praise politics and patrons | 110 |
Annihilation and abjection living death and living slavery | 133 |
Allegory | 225 |
Overcoming an inferiority complex the relationship with Greek literature | 242 |
Building Rome and building Roman literature | 265 |
Extract from Darkness Visible | 275 |
Whos afraid of literary theory? | 277 |
Authors and texts | 288 |
Timeline | 294 |
| 296 | |
Writing real lives | 152 |
Introspection and individual identity | 176 |
Literary texture and intertextuality | 190 |
Metapoetics | 207 |
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