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Book SynopsisDrawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature.
Trade Review‘All articles are minutely argued… Editors and contributors should be congratulated for this engaging addition to Phoenix Supplementary Volumes.’ -- Clifford Broeniman * The Classical Journal June 2017 *
"Charming and impressive, this volume is characteristic both of the editors and of Elaine Fantham; she must have been pleased." -- Amy Richlin, University of California, LA * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *
Table of Contents1. Introduction - Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson Part I - Domestic Politics 2. Varro on the Battle of Moisture in the Roman Domus (A Note on Men. Fr. 531-32) - Christer Bruun 3. Rape, the Family, and the "Father of the Fatherland" in Ovid, Fasti 2 - Fanny Dolansky 4. Naming the Elegiac Mistress: Elegiac Onomastics in Roman Inscriptions - Alison Keith 5. In Manus: Pliny's Letters and the Arts of Mastery - Sarah Blake Part II - Revolutionary Poetics 6. The Magic is in the Mix: Circe, Ovid, and the Genre(s) of the Remedia Amoris - Barbara Weiden Boyd 7. Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Sarah McCallum 8. Narrative Transition and Literary Allusion in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9 - C.W. Marshall 9. Elegy and Epic in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile - Cedric Littlewood 10. Revolution and Revenge: Reading Aeneas through Hannibal - Elizabeth Kennedy Part III - Civic Spectacle 11. The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378-382 Ribbeck3 - Jarrett Welsh 12. Knowledge, Power, and Republicanism in Lucan - Jonathan Tracy 13. The Rites of Others - Clifford Ando 14. Rituals of Reciprocity: Gladiatorial Munera in Apuleius' Metamorphoses - Jonathan Edmondson
