The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate

by Basil Dufallo

The ancient Romans quite literally surrounded themselves with the dead: masks of the dead were in the atria of their houses, funerals paraded through their main marketplace, and tombs lined the roads leading into and out of the city. In Roman literature as well, the dead occupy a prominent place, indicating a close and complex relationship between literature and society. The evocation of the dead in the Latin authors of the first century BCE both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256260
• ISBN13: 9780814256268
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"