Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pride and Roman Pride
Scripts and Words
Scope
Structure

Part One: Scripts and Words: General Approaches to Roman Pride
Chapter One: Semantics
adrogantia
fastus
insolentia

Chapter Two: Stages
Causes of Pride
Proud Behaviors
Reacting to Pride

Chapter Three: The Peculiar Case of the superbia Group
Conclusion (Part 1)

Part Two: Scripts: Institution and Place
Chapter Four: Kingship
The Pretenders
Spurius Cassius Vecellinus
Spurius Maelius
Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
The counterexample: Scipio Africanus
Cicero and Other Kings

Chapter Five: Capua
Ausonius' urbs nobilis
Capua as a Rival Capital in Cicero's Agrarian Speeches
Hannibal, Capua, and the Second Punic War in Livy and Silius Italicus
Conclusion (Part 2)

Part Three: Words: The Transformation of superbia
Chapter Six: Vergil's Aeneid, Pride Unsettled
Troy
Carthage
Athletic Victories
The Iliadic Half
Turnus and the End
Tarquinius and Brutus, Agrippa and Augustus
Appendix: Gods' Lovers, Gods' Helpers, Gods' Human Pets

Chapter Seven: Transformation of Pride in Augustan Poetry
Triumph and Defeat in Horace, Carmina 1
Pride and Love
Pride and Poetry
The Late-Augustan Aftermath

Chapter Eight: Positive Pride in Post-Augustan Literature
Poetic Pride
Pride in the Public Sphere
Pride by Association
Flavian Epic
Positive Pride in Pliny the Elder

Conclusion (Part 3)

Coda
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

About the Author

Yelena Baraz is Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Professor of Classics, and Acting Director, for the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. She received a BA in Latin from Brooklyn College, CUNY, PhD in Classics from University of California, Berkeley, and was the American Fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich.

Reviews

This is a well-structured monograph. As Baraz is the perfect guide through her book, the reader cannot miss her central messages.
*Angela Ganter, Redaktion sehepunkte*

This is a sophisticated analysis of the highest order and arguably constitutes the most original and articulate contemporary explication of an ancient Roman emotional condition fraught with various historical, literary, and semantic complexities.... Essential.
*CHOICE*

The skeleton of the study is lexical, centred on four terms which denote (excessive) pride (arrogantia, fastus, insolentia, and superbia), and scrupulously constructed.... But the superstructure is a rich and elegant weave, as supple close readings are put to the service of a broad argument about Roman attitudes towards pride, and reasons for them.
*Greece & Rome*