Screen LibraryUnderstanding Latin literature /
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Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: |
Understanding the ancient world. |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781138645400 (hardback) : 1138645400 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PA6004 |
| CLC: | I730.06 |
| Call Number: | I730.06/B825/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | 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. |