|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910782928203321 |
|
|
Autore |
Fitzgerald William <1952-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Slavery and the Roman literary imagination / / William Fitzgerald [[electronic resource]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-107-11893-X |
1-280-42111-8 |
0-511-17333-4 |
0-511-04073-3 |
0-511-15239-6 |
0-511-32335-2 |
0-511-61254-0 |
0-511-04927-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xi, 129 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Roman literature and its contexts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Latin literature - History and criticism |
Slavery in literature |
Slavery - Rome - History |
Enslaved persons - Rome |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-125) and indexes. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: living with slaves; CHAPTER 1. The other self: proximity and symbiosis; CHAPTER 2. Punishment: license, (self-) control and fantasy; CHAPTER 3. Slaves between the free; CHAPTER 4. The continuum of (servile) relationships; CHAPTER 5. Enslavement and metamorphosis; Epilogue; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages discussed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative alibis as well as mediators between and |
|
|
|
|