Table of Contents

Introduction 
I. The Advent of the Magna Mater
II. The Bacchanalian Affair
III. Poetry and Politics: The Beginnings of Latin Literature
IV. Plautus and the Public Stage
V. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Roman Anxieties
Bibliography
Index

 

About the Author

Erich S. Gruen is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome and The Last Generation of the Roman Republic. Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy was originally delivered as part of the series of Louise Taft Semple Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.

Reviews

"The real merit of Gruen's studies is that there is far more to agree with than contest."--T. H. Harver, "The Classical Review