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The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership.

Latin literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Latin literature - History and criticism --- Flavian Age. --- canon. --- genre system.

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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 in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural studies as well as of the ancient world.

Latin literature --- Latin literature. --- Violence in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Violence in literature --- History and criticism --- Latin literature - History and criticism

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This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi, Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part deals with rhetoric, including the subject of imitation as a stylistic feature, the study of performance comparing oratory and comedy and of declamation. Papers on Ovid's Fasti include a study of failed rape-scenes and papers concerned with women's cults. The last part (Senecan tragedy, Lucan, Statius) focuses on Lucan's Civil War and his treatment of Caesar as well as Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid.

Latin literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- Bellettrie. --- Latijn. --- Retorica. --- Latin literature --History and criticism. --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Rhetoric --- Ancient rhetoric --- Latin Literature. --- Roman comedy. --- Roman rhetoric. --- Women.

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Hauptbeschreibung Die Debatte über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens ist durch die moderne Hirnforschung in jüngster Zeit wieder ins Zentrum des Interesses gerückt. Ihre Anfänge liegen im antiken Epos, wo das Verhältnis von menschlicher Entscheidungsfreiheit und göttlicher oder übernatürlicher Einflußnahme ausgelotet und mit den Mitteln der Dichtung dargestellt wird. Dem Glauben an die Wirksamkeit von Göttern oder numinosen Kräften kommt in der Antike eine gewisse Plausibilität zu. Allerdings ist das Eingreifen des Göttlichen in die Wirklichkeit durch Rationalität konzeptionalis

Latin literature --- Littérature latine --- History and criticism --- Congresses. --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Rome --- Religion --- Religion -- Philosophy. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Littérature latine --- Congrès --- Latin literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- Rome - Religion - Congresses --- vergleichende Literaturgeschichte --- Gott --- Mensch --- Schicksal --- Epik

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What significations did Egypt have for the Romans a century after Actium and afterwards? How did Greek imperial authors respond to the Roman fascination with the Nile? This book explores Egypt's aftermath beyond the hostility of Augustan rhetoric, and Greek and Roman topoi of Egyptian "barbarism." Set against history and material culture, Julio-Claudian, Flavian, Antonine, and Severan authors reveal a multivalent Egypt that defines Rome's increasingly diffuse identity while remaining a tertium quid between Roman Selfhood and foreign Otherness. Vespasian's Alexandrian uprising, his recognition of Egypt as his power basis, and his patronage of Isis re-conceptualize Egypt past the ideology of Augustan conquest. The imperialistic exhilaration and moral angst attending Rome's Flavian cosmopolitanism find an expressive means in the geographically and semantically nebulous Nile. The rapprochement with Egypt continues in the second and early third centuries. The "Hellenic" Antonines and the African-Syrian Severans expand perceptions of geography and identity within an increasingly decentralized and diverse empire. In the political and cultural discourses of this period, the capacious symbolics of Egypt validate the empire's religious and ethnic pluralism.

Egypt -- In literature. --- Latin literature -- History and criticism. --- Latin literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Egypt --- In literature. --- Egypte dans la littérature --- Egypte dans la littérature --- Littérature latine --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Culture. --- Egypt. --- History. --- Orientalism. --- Rome.