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