The Ghosts of the Past Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate - Dufallo, Basil; Project Muse. (Ohio State University Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and indexes.
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Keywords: Dead in literature; Latin literature -- History and criticism; Electronic books