Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature

by Hunter H Gardner and Hunter H. Gardner

Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagious disease, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198796420
• ISBN13: 9780198796428
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"