LATN 201: Advanced Latin Literature: Vergil (HC)

Presents a series of original essays that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600.

The authors put the emphasis on the changes that occurred in the Greco-Roman and Late Antique periods, as illustrated by such topics as: traditional religious life challenged; governing a country with a past: between tradition and innovation; and creative minds in theory and praxis.

Overview essays trace the major elements which influenced Classical historians including social class, educational institutions, political ideologies, and literary aims. Also available as an e-book in Tripod.

Essays include "The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World."

The study of ancient Roman society blossomed in the 1970's. By now, we possess a very large literature on the individuals and groups that constituted the Roman community, and the various ways in which members of that community interacted. There is, however, no overview that takes into account the multifarious progress that has been made in the past thirty or forty years. The purpose of this handbook is twofold. On the one hand, it synthesizes what has heretofore been accomplished in this field. On the other hand, it attempts to configure the examination of Roman social relations in some new ways, and thereby indicates directions in which the discipline might proceed.