Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. R. Elaine Fantham: List of Publications xiii
6. Abbreviations xxiii
7. 1. Roman Literary Cultures 1
8. Part I: Domestic Politics
9. 2. Varro on the Battle against Moisture in the Roman domus (A Note on Men. Fr. 531–2) 17
10. 3. Rape, the Family, and the “Father of the Fatherland” in Ovid, Fasti 2 39
11. 4. Naming the Elegiac Mistress: Elegiac Onomastics in Roman Inscriptions 59
12. 5. In Manus: Pliny’s Letters and the Arts of Mastery 89
13. Part II: Revolutionary Poetics
14. 6 Ovid’s Circe and the Revolutionary Power of carmina in the Remedia amoris 111
15. 7. Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 124
16. 8. Narrative Transitions in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 9 140
17. 9. Elegy and Epic in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile 159
18. 10. Reading Aeneas through Hannibal: The Poetics of Revenge and the Repetitions of History 185
19. Part III: Civic Spectacle
20. 11. The Charms of an Older Lover: Afranius 378–82 Ribbeck 203
21. 12. Knowledge, Power, and Republicanism in Lucan 221
22. 13. The Rites of Others 254
23. 14. Rituals of Reciprocity: Staging Gladiatorial munera in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 278
24. Contributors 311
25. Index Locorum 313
26. General Index 331
27. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 337