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Fame and glory, rumour and reputation have fascinated through the ages. The way in which they are communicated and spread is a topic which impacts our lives on a daily basis and is an important theme in current literature. The ancient world is an ideal arena for the exploration of these issues, being a ‘closed'period of human history that offers a secure resource for exploring the phenomenon. Philip Hardie's Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2012) is an authoritative work on this subject, and the stimulus for this volume. Continuing the on-going discussion, each one of the contributors examines further aspects of the issue in the work of Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius, Juvenal and the Christian poet, Prudentius. The volume offers insights into the poets'personal quest for acclaim and – more importantly – their awareness of the qualities of the phenomenon, an awareness which, on occasion, led them to personify fame and glory. Virgil's personification of Fama in Aeneid 4 was fame's most important personification, influencing artists for centuries to come, and it is this subject with which the volume concludes.

Latin literature. --- Hardie, Philip R. --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Latin literature

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Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their ‘context’, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an international team of scholars, discussing single plays or Roman dramatic genres (including comedy, tragedy and praetexta, from both the Republican and imperial periods) in contexts such as the literary tradition, the relationship to works in other literary genres, the historical and social situation, the intellectual background or the later reception. Overall, they offer a rich panorama of the role of Roman drama or individual plays in Roman society and literary history. The insights gained thereby will be of relevance to everyone interested in Roman drama or literature more generally, comparative literature or drama and theatre studies. This contextual approach has the potential of changing the way in which Roman drama is viewed.

Latin drama --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Latin drama - History and criticism --- Drama. --- Roman literature. --- comedy. --- tragedy.

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"What is a paratext, and where can we find it in a Roman text? What kind of space does a paratext occupy, and how does this space relate to the text and its contexts? How do we interpret Roman texts 'paratextually'? And what does this approach suggest about a work's original modes of plotting meaning, or the assumptions that underpin our own interpretation? These questions are central to the conceptual and practical concerns of the volume, which offers a synoptic study of Roman paratextuality and its exegesis within the broad sphere of Roman studies. Its contributions, which span literary, epigraphic and visual culture, focus on a wide variety of paratextual features - e.g. titles and inter-titles, prefaces, indices, inscriptions, closing statements, decorative and formalistic details - and other paratextual phenomena, such as the frames that can be plotted at various intersections of a text's formal organization"--

Intertextuality --- Latin literature --- Paratext --- Books --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Technique --- Intertextuality. --- Paratext. --- Technique.

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Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting - ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will

Classical philology --- Women classicists --- Latin literature --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Latin philology --- Classicists --- Women scholars --- Philology, Classical --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek literature --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language

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Classical Latin literature --- Latin literature --- Rome --- Literary collections --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Literary collections. --- Latin literature. --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome - Literary collections