Isbn: 9780814256268 - the ghosts of the past: latin literature, the dead, and rome's transition to a principate

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead: masks of the dead were in the atria of their houses, funerals paraded through their main marketplace, and tombs lined the roads leading into and out of the city. In Roman literature as well, the dead occupy a prominent place, indicating a close and complex relationship between literature and society. The evocation of the dead in the Latin authors of the first century BCE both responds and contributes to changing socio-political conditions during the transition from the Republic to the Empire. To understand the literary life of the Roman dead, The Ghosts of the Past develops a new perspective on Latin literature's interaction with Roman culture. Drawing on the insights of sociology, anthropology, and performance theory, Basil Dufallo argues that authors of the late Republic and early Principate engage strategically with Roman behaviors centered on the dead and their world in order to address urgent political and social concerns. Republican literature exploits this context for the ends of political competition among the clan-based Roman elite, while early imperial literature seeks to restage the republican practices for a reformed Augustan society. Calling into question boundaries of genre and literary form, Dufallo's study will revise current understandings of Latin literature as a cultural and performance practice. Works as diverse as Cicero's speeches, Propertian elegy, Horace's epodes and satires, and Vergil's Aeneid appear in a new light as performed texts interacting with other kinds of cultural performance from which they might otherwise seem isolated.…

THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST

Dufallo, Basil

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: The Ohio State University Press, 2021

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Zustand: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorBasil Dufallo is assistant professor of Greek and Latin and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.KlappentextrnrnThe ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead.…

THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST | LATIN LITERATURE, THE DEAD, AND ROME'S TRANSITION TO A PRINCIPATE

Basil Dufallo

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The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate

The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate

The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate

The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate

THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST : LATIN LITERATURE, THE DEAD, AND ROME'S TRANSITION TO A PRINCIPATE

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THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST | LATIN LITERATURE, THE DEAD, AND ROME'S TRANSITION TO A PRINCIPATE