{"product_id":"understanding-latin-literature-9781138645394","title":"Understanding Latin Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Latin Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second edition is heavily revised to reflect recent developments in scholarship, especially in the area of the later reception and reverberations of Latin literature. Chapters are dedicated to Latin writers such as Virgil and Livy and explore how literature related to Roman identity and society. Readers are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts and through understanding the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture. The versatile and accessible structure of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Latin Literature\u003c\/i\u003e makes it suitable for both individual and class use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBraund provides a superb overview of pertinent issues related to Latin literature through her unique organization by topic. The second edition includes a new and instructive chapter on the reception of Latin literature, and effectively incorporates recent scholarship on such varied topics as gender, performance and spectacle, slavery, public v. private, and the relationship between literature and society. Braund’s takes on all are well informed, often thought-provoking, openly personal, and delivered in a crisp and clear, always accessible style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Professor David Christenson, University of Arizona, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of figures \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout this book \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Virgil and the meaning of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 What is Latin literature? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 What does studying Latin literature involve? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Performance and spectacle, life and death \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Writing ‘real’ lives \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Introspection and individual identity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Literary texture and intertextuality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Metapoetics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Allegory \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Overcoming an inferiority complex: constructing Roman literature\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimeline \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019511988567,"sku":"9781138645394","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138645394.jpg?v=1750780488","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-latin-literature-9781138645394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}