Roman literary cultures : domestic politics, revolutionary poetics, civic spectacle / edited by Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson.

Other author Edmondson, Jonathan author, editor.
Other author Keith, Alison Mary, author, editor.
Format Book
PublicationToronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Copyright Date©2016
Descriptionxxiv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Littérature latine--Histoire et critique.

SeriesPhoenix supplementary volume ; 55
Phoenix. Supplementary volume (Toronto, Ont.) ; 55. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Roman literary cultures / Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmnodson -- Varro on the Battle of Moisture in the Roman domus (a note on Men. Fr. 531 32) / Christer Bruun -- Rape, the family, and the "father of the fatherland" in Ovid, Fasti 2 / Fanny Dolansky -- Naming the elegiac mistress : elegiac onomastics in Roman inscriptions / Alison Keith -- In manus : Pliny's letters and the arts of mastery / Sarah Blake -- Ovid's Circe and the revoluationary power of carmina in the Remedia amoris / Barbara Weiden Boyd -- Primus pastor : the origins of pastoral in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Sarah L. McCallum -- Narrative transitions in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9 / C.W. Marshall -- Elegy and epic in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Cedric Littlewood -- Reading Aeneas through Hannibal : the poetics of revenge and the repetitions of history / Elizabeth Kennedy -- The charms of an older lover : Afranius 378-82 Ribbeck / Jarrett Welsh -- Knowledge, power, and republicanism in Lucan / Jonathan Tracy -- The rites of others / Clifford Ando -- Rituals of reciprocity : gladiatorial munera in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jonathan Edmondson.
Abstract "Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws. Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN9781442629677 (cloth)
ISBN1442629673 (cloth)

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