Roman Literary Cultures

Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Jonathan Edmondson is professor of History and Classical Studies in the Department of History at York University.

1. Introduction – Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson


 


Part I – Domestic Politics


2. Varro on the Battle of Moisture in the Roman Domus (A Note on Men. Fr. 531–32) – Christer Bruun


3. Rape, the Family, and the “Father of the Fatherland” in Ovid, Fasti 2 – Fanny Dolansky


4. Naming the Elegiac Mistress: Elegiac Onomastics in Roman Inscriptions – Alison Keith


5. In Manus: Pliny’s Letters and the Arts of Mastery – Sarah Blake


 


Part II – Revolutionary Poetics


6. The Magic is in the Mix: Circe, Ovid, and the Genre(s) of the Remedia Amoris – Barbara Weiden Boyd


7. Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral in Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Sarah McCallum


8. Narrative Transition and Literary Allusion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 9 – C.W. Marshall


 9. Elegy and Epic in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile – Cedric Littlewood


10. Revolution and Revenge: Reading Aeneas through Hannibal – Elizabeth Kennedy


 


Part III – Civic Spectacle


11. The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378–382 Ribbeck3 – Jarrett Welsh


12. Knowledge, Power, and Republicanism in Lucan – Jonathan Tracy


13. The Rites of Others – Clifford Ando


14. Rituals of Reciprocity: Gladiatorial Munera in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses – Jonathan Edmondson