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. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007. - xi, 175 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780814210444 (alk. paper) 0814210449 (alk. paper)
2006018337
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Dead in literature.
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. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007. - xi, 175 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780814210444 (alk. paper) 0814210449 (alk. paper)
2006018337
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Dead in literature.
PA6029.D43 / D84 2007
870.9/3548