Comedy and sexuality -- Rhetoric and literary culture -- Ovid's narrative poem, the Fasti -- Passion and civil war in Roman tragedy and epic : Seneca, Lucan and Statius.
Summary
This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume discusses among others texts by Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Quintilian, Gellius and Ovid.