10 research outputs found
Provocation - W. Fitzgerald: Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position. (Classics and Contemporary Thought, 1.) Pp. ix + 310. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-520-20062-4.
Full text linkJohn Henderson, Juvenal's Mayor. The Professor Who Lived on 2d. a Day (Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume 20). Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 1998. Pp. vii + 144, 16 figs. ISBN 0-906014-19-0. £22.85.
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Understanding Latin literature /
Full text linkIncludes bibliographical references and index.Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid -- Role models for Roman women and men in Livy -- What is Latin literature? -- What does studying Latin literature involve? -- Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature -- Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity -- Performance and spectacle, life and death -- Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons -- Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery -- Writing "real" lives -- Introspection and individual identity -- Literary texture and intertextuality -- Metapoetics -- Allegory -- Overcoming an inferiority complex: constructing Roman literature
