CiNii Books - Understanding Latin literature

Understanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second edition is heavily revised to reflect recent developments in scholarship, especially in the area of the later reception and reverberations of Latin literature. Chapters are dedicated to Latin writers such as Virgil and Livy and explore how literature related to Roman identity and society. Readers are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts and through understanding 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 and accessible structure of Understanding Latin Literature makes it suitable for both individual and class use.

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List of figures About this book Acknowledgements 1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid 2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy 3 What is Latin literature? 4 What does studying Latin literature involve? 5 Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature 6 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity 7 Performance and spectacle, life and death 8 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons 9 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery 10 Writing 'real' lives 11 Introspection and individual identity 12 Literary texture and intertextuality 13 Metapoetics 14 Allegory 15 Overcoming an inferiority complex: constructing Roman literature Bibliography Timeline

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