The Ghosts of the Past
Dufallo, Basil.
The Ghosts of the Past Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate / Basil Dufallo. - 1 online resource (xi, 175 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and indexes.
Introduction : the dead as living -- Oratory and magic in Republican Rome -- Domesticae furiae : Cicero's tragic universe -- The Second Philippic as cultural resistance -- Propertian elegy as "restored behavior" -- Vergil's alternatives to Republican performance -- Conclusion : the living as the dead.
Open Access
9780814272244 081427224X
Dead in literature.
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PA6029.D43 / D84 2007
870.9/3548
The Ghosts of the Past Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate / Basil Dufallo. - 1 online resource (xi, 175 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and indexes.
Introduction : the dead as living -- Oratory and magic in Republican Rome -- Domesticae furiae : Cicero's tragic universe -- The Second Philippic as cultural resistance -- Propertian elegy as "restored behavior" -- Vergil's alternatives to Republican performance -- Conclusion : the living as the dead.
Open Access
9780814272244 081427224X
Dead in literature.
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PA6029.D43 / D84 2007
870.9/3548