Roman Literary Cultures Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle - Phoenix - Toronto - Supplementary Volume

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.

ISBN:	9781442629677
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Published date:	23 May 2016
DEWEY:	870.9
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxiv, 340
Weight:	716g
Height:	163mm
Width:	238mm
Spine width:	34mm

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