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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hunter H Gardner |
ISBN: | 0198796420 9780198796428 |
OCLC Number: | 1119711287 |
Description: | x, 303 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Experiments in plague discourse -- Part 1: Tabula rasa: a new kind of plague narrative. 1. Roman pestilence: tenor and vehicle -- 2. Livy, Pestilentia, and the pathologies of class strife -- Part 2: Experiments in apocalyptic thinking. 3. Human and civic corpora in Lucretius' Athenian plague -- 4. Plague, civil war, and epochal evolution in Vergil's georgics -- 5. Ovid's origin of the myrmidons and the new Augustan order -- Part 3: Transmitting roman plague. 6. Imperial Receptions: Lucan, Seneca, and Silius Italicus -- 7. Relapse: transmitting roman plague in the west |
Responsibility: | Hunter H. Gardner. |
Abstract:
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.
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...this outstanding work has already changed our knowledge of the late Republican imagery of the pestilence in the political culture and discourses. It is now a must-read for any future research on the plague metaphor(s) applied to the body politic beyond the Latin literature. * Irene Leonardis, Universita di Pavia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Read more...
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