Texts and violence in the Roman world / edited by Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield.

From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented i...

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Other Authors: Gale, Monica (Monica R.) (Editor), Scourfield, J. H. D. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a Introduction : reading Roman violence / Monica R. Gale and J.H.D. Scourfield -- Comic violence and the citizen body / David Konstan and Shilpa Raval -- Contemplating violence : Lucretius' De rerum natura / Monica R. Gale -- Discipline and punish : Horatian satire and the formation of the self / Paul Allen Miller -- Make war not love : Militia amoris and domestic violence in Roman elegy / Donncha O'Rourke -- Violence and resistance in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Carole E. Newlands -- Tales of the unexpurgated (cert PG) : Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) / John Henderson -- Dismemberment and the critics : Seneca's Phaedra / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Violence and alienation in Lucan's Pharsalia : the case of Caesar / Efrossini Spentzou -- Tacitus and the language of violence / Bruce J. Gibson -- Cruel narrative : Apuleius' Golden ass / William Fitzgerald -- Violence and the Christian heroine : two narratives of desire / J.H.D. Scourfield. 
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