Texts and Violence in the Roman World

Herausgeber: Gale, Monica R.; Scourfield, J. H. D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christian martyrdom narratives of Late Antiquity. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Greek and Roman literature and culture, and of cultural studies more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9781107027145
• ISBN-10: 1107027144
• Artikelnr.: 48915974

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - reading Roman violence Monica R. Gale and J. H. D.
Scourfield; 1. Comic violence and the citizen body David Konstan and Shilpa
Raval; 2. Contemplating violence: Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' Monica R.
Gale; 3. Discipline and punish - Horatian satire and the formation of the
self Paul Allen Miller; 4. Make war not love: militia amoris and domestic
violence in Roman elegy Donncha O'Rourke; 5. Violence and resistance in
Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' Carole E. Newlands; 6. Tales of the unexpurgated
(Cert PG) - Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) John Henderson;
7. Dismemberment and the critics - Seneca's 'Phaedra' Duncan F. Kennedy; 8.
Violence and alienation in Lucan's 'Pharsalia' - the case of Caesar
Efrossini Spentzou; 9. Tacitus and the language of violence Bruce J.
Gibson; 10. Cruel narrative: Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' William Fitzgerald; 11.
Violence and the Christian heroine - two narratives of desire J. H. D.
Scourfield.