Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws.

Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.

"Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson have collected a fine body of work that builds on the legacy of Fantham's Roman Literary Culture. Each contribution is clearly written, and spaciously argued. The shear breadth of the coverage ensures that all students of Roman literature can find something of interest." -- Catherine Connors, Department of Classics, University of Washington

About the Author
Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Jonathan Edmondson is professor of History and Classical Studies in the Department of History at York University.

Reviews

'All articles are minutely argued... Editors and contributors should be congratulated for this engaging addition to Phoenix Supplementary Volumes.'

-- Clifford Broeniman * The Classical Journal June 2017 *

"Charming and impressive, this volume is characteristic both of the editors and of Elaine Fantham; she must have been pleased."

-- Amy Richlin, University of California, LA * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781442629677
Author Alison Keith
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint University of Toronto Press
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Weight(grams) 710g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 28mm