The politics of Latin literature : writing, identity, and empire in ancient Rome /

This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that...

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Hlavní autor: Habinek, Thomas N., 1953-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1998.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sp3p
Obsah:
  • Latin Literature and the Problem of Rome
  • Why Was Latin Literature Invented?
  • Cicero and the Bandits
  • Culture Wars in the First Century B.C.E.
  • Writing as Social Performance
  • Roman Women's Useless Knowledge
  • An Aristocracy of Virtue
  • Pannonia Domanda Est: The Construction of the Imperial Subject through Ovid's Poetry from Exile.