LEADER 04688nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910780052103321 005 20211001024719.0 010 $a9786612753381 010 $a1-282-75338-X 010 $a1-4008-2251-3 010 $a1-4008-1192-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822515 035 $a(CKB)111056486505754 035 $a(EBL)581600 035 $a(OCoLC)51453398 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224036 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210354 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224036 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206637 035 $a(PQKB)11127768 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000440955 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304892 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000440955 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10491758 035 $a(PQKB)11600021 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36018 035 $a(DE-B1597)446259 035 $a(OCoLC)979628858 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822515 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581600 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035777 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581600 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505754 100 $a19970910d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of Latin literature$b[electronic resource] $ewriting, identity, and empire in ancient Rome /$fThomas N. Habinek 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-08984-1 311 0 $a0-691-06827-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-221) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE. Latin Literature and the Problem of Rome --$tCHAPTER TWO. Why Was Latin Literature Invented? --$tCHAPTER THREE. Cicero and the Bandits --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Culture Wars in the First Century B.C.E. --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Writing as Social Performance --$tCHAPTER SIX. Roman Women's Useless Knowledge --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. An Aristocracy of Virtue --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Pannonia Domanda Est: The Construction of the Imperial Subject through Ovid's Poetry from Exile --$tNotes --$tINDEX OF PASSAGES CITED --$tGENERAL INDEX 330 $aThis is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Seneca. He shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century B.C. to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect, for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority, such as patriarchy, religious ritual, cultural identity, and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny, or existimatio. Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures, aloof from mundane political concerns--a view, he shows, that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing. 606 $aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthorship$xPolitical aspects$zRome 606 $aPolitics and literature$zRome 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 615 0$aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthorship$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 676 $a870.9/001 700 $aHabinek$b Thomas N.$f1953-$0266726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780052103321 996 $aThe politics of Latin literature$93674482 997 $aUNINA