Engendering Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Engendering Rome write by A. M. Keith. This book was released on 2000-02-24. Engendering Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display in epic has received scant attention in the critical literature. This study represents an attempt to restore female characters to visibility in Roman epic and to examine the discursive operations that effect their marginalisation within both the genre and the critical tradition it has given rise to. The five chapters can be read either as self-contained essays or as a cumulative exploration of the gender dynamics of the Roman epic tradition. The issues addressed are of interest not just to classicists but also to students of gender studies.
The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age
The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age write by Federica Bessone. This book was released on 2017-11-07. The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership.
Understanding Latin Literature
Understanding Latin Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Latin Literature write by Susanna Morton Braund. This book was released on 2017-04-27. Understanding Latin Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Latin Literature 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 Understanding Latin Literature makes it suitable for both individual and class use.
Texts and Violence in the Roman World
Texts and Violence in the Roman World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texts and Violence in the Roman World write by Monica R. Gale. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Texts and Violence in the Roman World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.
Thunder and Lament
Thunder and Lament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thunder and Lament write by Timothy A. Joseph. This book was released on 2022. Thunder and Lament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia tells the story of the cataclysmic "end of Rome" through the victory of Julius Caesar and Caesarism in the civil wars of 49-48 BCE. This book argues that Lucan's poetic agenda moves in lockstep with his narrative arc, as he fashions the Pharsalia to mark the momentous end of the epic genre. In order to accomplish the closure of the genre, Lucan engages pervasively and polemically with the very first works of Greek and Roman epic - inverting, undoing, and closing off many of the tropes and themes introduced in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and in the foundational Latin epic poems by Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and most of all Ennius. By looking at Lucan's effort to "surpass the poets of old" - a phrase Statius would use of his achievement - this study broadens our appreciation of Lucan's poetic ambitions and accomplishment. Statius also read Lucan as a poet who both thunders and laments, and this book makes the case that Lucan closes off epic's beginnings through not just gestures of thundering poetic violence but also a transformation and expansion of the traditional epic mode of lament. In his story of violent Roman self-destruction and the lamentation that accompanies it, Lucan at the same time uproots and marks the end of the epic song"--
