Latin LiteratureRoutledge, 19 lug 2005 - 320 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. |
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Augustus wearing a cuirass from the Villa of Livia | 1 |
Prima Porta | 10 |
Role models for Roman women and | 20 |
Titian Tarquin and Lucretia | 30 |
Gentileschi Tarquin and Lucretia | 31 |
Tiepolo Tarquin and Lucretia | 32 |
What is Latin literature? | 37 |
What does studying Latin literature involve? | 53 |
Introspection and individual identity | 176 |
Literary texture and intertextuality | 190 |
Metapoetics | 207 |
Edward BurneJones Pygmalion and The Image ii | 212 |
The Hand Refrains | 214 |
The Soul Attains | 215 |
Allegory | 225 |
Prudentius Psychomachia | 238 |
multiculturalism | 70 |
Sketch map of the triumphal route through Rome | 80 |
Performance and spectacle life and death | 89 |
praise politics | 110 |
living death | 133 |
Writing real lives | 152 |
Cycle of virtues and vices on Notre Dame Cathedral | 239 |
Building Rome and building Roman | 265 |
List of authors and texts | 288 |
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