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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 March 2018
      05 April 2018
      ISBN:
      9781139225304
      9781107027145
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139225304
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 396 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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    From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural studies as well as of the ancient world.

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