Table of Contents

1. Introduction: texts, tools, territories Roy Gibson and Christopher Whitton; 2. Canons Irene; 3. Periodisations Gavin Kelly; 4. Author and identity Alison Sharrock; 5. Intertextuality Donncha O'Rourke and Aaron Pelttari; 6. Mediaeval Latin Justin Stover; 7. Neo-Latin Yasmin Haskell; 8. Reception James Uden; 9. National traditions Therese Fuhrer; 10. Editing Samuel J. Huskey and Robert A. Kaster; 11. Latin literature and linguistics James Clackson; 12. Latin literature and material culture Michael Squire and Jaś Elsner; 13. Philosophy Katharina Volk; 14. Political thought Michèle Lowrie; 15. Latin literature and roman history Myles Lavan; 16. Latin literature and Greek Simon Goldhill; 17. Envoi Mary Beard.

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A critical overview of work on Latin literature opening up broad geographical, chronological, disciplinary and methodological horizons.

About the Author

ROY GIBSON is Professor of Classics at Durham University and has published widely on Latin poetry and prose from Cicero to late antiquity, particularly Ovid, Pliny the Younger and Sidonius Apollinaris. He is Co-Director of the Ancient Letter Collections project, which researches Greco-Roman letter collections from Isocrates to Augustine. CHRISTOPHER WHITTON is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge. His publications include a commentary on Pliny Epistles 2 (Cambridge, 2013), The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose (Cambridge, 2019) and Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96-138 (coedited with Alice König, Cambridge, 2018).