Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle

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