Latin literature
By: Susanna Morton Braund.
Series: Classical foundations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Latin literature -- History and criticism.; Rome -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations vii; title: About this book viii; title: Acknowledgements xvi; title: 1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid 1; title: 2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy 20; title: 3 What is Latin literature? 37; title: 4 What does studying Latin literature involve? 53; title: 5 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity 70; title: 6 Performance and spectacle, life and death 89; title: 7 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons 110; title: 8 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery 133; title: 9 Writing 'real' lives 152; title: 10 Introspection and individual identity 176; title: 11 Literary texture and intertextuality 190; title: 12 Metapoetics 207; title: 13 Allegory 225; title: 14 Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature 242; title: 15 Building Rome and building Roman literature 265; title: Appendix A; title: Extract from Darkness Visible by W.R.Johnson 275; title: Appendix B; title: Who's afraid of literary theory? by Simon Goldhill 277; title: List of authors and texts 288; title: Time-line 294; title: List of translations used/adapted 296; title: Index of names and topics 298; title: Index ofpassages quoted 303.