Reading Roman Friendship

by Craig A. Williams

Book Overview

This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men and women at an outpost in northern Britain. One of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108820182
• ISBN13: 9781108820189
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"