TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braund,Susanna Morton
TI  - Understanding Latin literature
T2  - Understanding the ancient world
SN  - 9781138645400
AV  - PA6004 .B66 2017
U1  - 870.9/001 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
ER  -