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Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

By William Fitzgerald

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0521770319, 9780521770316, 9780511040733
LCC
PA6030.S6 F58 2000
Open Library ID
OL33689M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
598 kB (611945 bytes)
Pages
12\143
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book deals with the ways in which the ancient Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It asks what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. The book covers the full range of Roman literature, and is arranged thematically. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and also the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself.

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