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 Politics2. Varro on the Battle of Moisture in the Roman Domus (A Note on Men. Fr. 531–32) – Christer Bruun3. Rape, the Family, and the “Father of the Fatherland” in Ovid, Fasti 2 – Fanny Dolansky4. Naming the Elegiac Mistress: Elegiac Onomastics in Roman Inscriptions – Alison Keith5. In Manus: Pliny’s Letters and the Arts of Mastery – Sarah Blake  Part II – Revolutionary Poetics6. The Magic is in the Mix: Circe, Ovid, and the Genre(s) of the Remedia Amoris – Barbara Weiden Boyd7. Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral in Ovid’s Metamorphoses – Sarah McCallum8. Narrative Transition and Literary Allusion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 9 – C.W. Marshall9. Elegy and Epic in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile – Cedric Littlewood10. Revolution and Revenge: Reading Aeneas through Hannibal – Elizabeth Kennedy  Part III – Civic Spectacle11. The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378–382 Ribbeck3 – Jarrett Welsh12. Knowledge, Power, and Republicanism in Lucan – Jonathan Tracy13. The Rites of Others – Clifford Ando14. Rituals of Reciprocity: Gladiatorial Munera in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses – Jonathan Edmondson

‘All articles are minutely argued… Editors and contributors should be congratulated for this engaging addition to Phoenix Supplementary Volumes.’- Clifford Broeniman (The Classical Journal June 2017) "Charming and impressive, this volume is characteristic both of the editors and of Elaine Fantham; she must have been pleased."- Amy Richlin, University of California, LA (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)