Contents	6
	Illustrations	8
	About this book	9
	Chapter 1 Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid	18
	Chapter 2 Role models for Roman women and men in Livy	37
	Chapter 3 What is Latin literature?	54
	Chapter 4 What does studying Latin literature involve?	70
	Chapter 5 Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity	87
	Chapter 6 Performance and spectacle,life and death	106
	Chapter 7 Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons	127
	Chapter 8 Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery	150
	Chapter 9 Writing ‘real’ lives	169
	Chapter 10 Introspection and individual identity	193
	Chapter 11 Literary texture and intertextuality	207
	Chapter 12 Metapoetics	224
	Chapter 13 Allegory	242
	Chapter 14 Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature	259
	Chapter 15 Building Rome and building Roman literature	282
	Appendix A Extract from Darkness Visible	292
	Appendix B Who’s afraid of literary theory?	294
	Authors and texts	305
	Time-line	311
	Translations used/adapted	313
	Index of names and topics	315
	Index of passages quoted	320
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