Basil Dufallo

Disorienting Empire

Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers

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Produktbeschreibung

Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1066g
• ISBN-13: 9780197571781
• ISBN-10: 0197571786
• Artikelnr.: 61859270

Autorenporträt

Basil Duffalo is Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. His previous books include The Captor's Image and The Ghosts of the Past.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* 1. Double Vision: Plautus's Menaechmi and Rome's Nascent Empire
* 2. Wayward Sons and Wandering Bacchic Revels: Terence's
Heautontimorumenos
* 3. Wandering Atoms, Roman Error, and Poetic Tradition in Lucretius
* 4. Catullan Wanderings: Traversing the Empire, Traversing the Self
* 5. Caesar's Mistakes and Horace's Errores: Publicizing Octavian's
Authority in Satires, Book 1
* Epilogue
* The Aeneid's Reorientations
* Bibliography