Includes bibliographical references )p. 296- 297( and index
Susanna Morton Braund
Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations vii -- About this book viii -- Acknowledgements xvi --1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid 1 --2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy 02 --3 What is Latin literature? 73 --4 What does studying Latin literature involve? 35 --5 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity 07 --6 Performance and spectacle, life and death 98 --7 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons 011 --8 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery 331 --9 Writing 'real' lives 251 --01 Introspection and individual identity 671 --11 Literary texture and intertextuality 091 --21 Metapoetics 702 --31 Allegory 522 --41 Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature 242 --51 Building Rome and building Roman literature 562 --Appendix A -- Extract from Darkness Visible by W.R.Johnson 572 --Appendix B -- Who's afraid of literary theory? by Simon Goldhill 772 --List of authors and texts 882 -- Time-line 492 -- List of translations used/adapted 692 -- Index of names and topics 892 -- Index ofpassages quoted 303