The Politics of Latin Literature : : Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome / / Thomas N. Habinek.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2001] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. Latin Literature and the Problem of Rome
- CHAPTER TWO. Why Was Latin Literature Invented?
- CHAPTER THREE. Cicero and the Bandits
- CHAPTER FOUR. Culture Wars in the First Century B.C.E.
- CHAPTER FIVE. Writing as Social Performance
- CHAPTER SIX. Roman Women's Useless Knowledge
- CHAPTER SEVEN. An Aristocracy of Virtue
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Pannonia Domanda Est: The Construction of the Imperial Subject through Ovid's Poetry from Exile
- Notes
- INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED
- GENERAL INDEX