Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature.

Edited by Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson

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