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Table of Contents
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 20
3 What is Latin literature? 37
4 What does studying Latin literature involve? 53
5 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity 70
6 Performance and spectacle, life and death 89
7 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons 110
8 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery 133
9 Writing 'real' lives 152
10 Introspection and individual identity 176
11 Literary texture and intertextuality 190
12 Metapoetics 207
13 Allegory 225
14 Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature 242
15 Building Rome and building Roman literature 265
Appendix A
Extract from Darkness Visible by W.R.Johnson 275
Appendix B
Who's afraid of literary theory? by Simon Goldhill 277
List of authors and texts 288
Time-line 294
List of translations used/adapted 296
Index of names and topics 298
Index ofpassages quoted 303.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-297) and index.
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