Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reading Roman Violence; I Violence and Rome; II Violence, Myth, and Literature; III Violence, Language, and Power; IV Violence, Gender, and Sexuality; V Violence and the Reader; Chapter 1 Comic Violence and the Citizen Body; Chapter 2 Contemplating Violence: Lucretiusâ#x80;#x99; De rerum natura; I; II; III; IV; V; Chapter 3 Discipline and Punish: Horatian Satire and the Formation of the Self; The Foucauldian Moment; Lucilian Admonition.
Chapter 8 Violence and Alienation in Lucanâ#x80;#x99;s Pharsalia: The Case of CaesarMutilating the Mind: Caesarâ#x80;#x99;s Radical Violence; Encounters with the Sublime and the Abject; Coda: Sociopolitical Considerations; Chapter 9 Tacitus and the Language of Violence; Chapter 10 Cruel Narrative: Apuleiusâ#x80;#x99; Golden Ass; The Bailiffâ#x80;#x99;s Tale: A Cruel Story; A Moral Tale?; Narration and Obliteration; Avoiding Death; The Cruelty of Perspective; The Body of the Ass; Chapter 11 Violence and the Christian Heroine: Two Narratives of Desire; I; II; III; IV; Works Cited; Index.
Horatian DisciplineConclusion: Practices of Subjection; Chapter 4 Make War Not Love: Militia amoris and Domestic Violence in Roman Elegy; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Chapter 5 Violence and Resistance in Ovidâ#x80;#x99;s Metamorphoses; Actaeon (Met. 3.131â#x80;#x93;259); Procne, Philomela, and Tereus (Met. 6.424â#x80;#x93;674); Marsyas; Chapter 6 Tales of the Unexpurgated (Cert PG): Senecaâ#x80;#x99;s Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4); Let Id Go; Keeping Mum (Books 1â#x80;#x93;2: 2.5); Save the Children Fun (Books 3â#x80;#x93;10: 10.4); Where It Was (Lâ#x80;#x99;Ego); Chapter 7 Dismemberment and the Critics: Senecaâ#x80;#x99;s Phaedra.
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A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.