Victoria Rimell is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Rome, La Sapieza. She has published Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction (2002), Ovid's Lovers (2006) and Martial's Rome (2008), and has also contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 2005) and Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (edited by Jason Konig and Tim Whitmarsh, 2007).
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: corporealities
1. Rhetorical red herrings
2. Behind the scenes
3. The beast within
4. From the horse's mouth
5. Bella intestina
6. Regurgitating Polyphemus
7. Scars of knowledge
8. How to eat Virgil
9. Ghost stories
10. Decomposing rhythms
11. Conclusion: licence and labyrinths
Appendices
Bibliography
Index of passages discussed
Index of subjects.
