Reading Roman friendship / Craig A. Williams.

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Williams, Craig A. (Craig Arthur), 1965- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 378 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1139782320
9781139782326
9781139776295
1139776290
9780511777134
0511777132
9781139779333
1139779338
1139887270
9781139887274
1139783343
9781139783347
1139777815
9781139777810

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Roman friendship.DDC classification:

870.9/353 23

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PA6029.F75 W55 2012eb

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Contents:

Men and women -- Love and friendship: questions and themes -- Love and friendship: authors and texts -- Friendship and the grave: the culture of commemoration.

Summary: This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men and women at an outpost in northern Britain. One of the most innovative features of this study is the equal attention it pays to Latin literature and to inscriptions carved in stone across the Roman Empire. What emerges is a richly varied and perhaps surprising picture. Hundreds of epitaphs, commissioned by men and women, citizens and slaves, record the commemoration of friends, which is of equal importance to understanding Roman friendship as Cicero's influential essay De amicitia.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Men and women -- Love and friendship: questions and themes -- Love and friendship: authors and texts -- Friendship and the grave: the culture of commemoration.

This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men and women at an outpost in northern Britain. One of the most innovative features of this study is the equal attention it pays to Latin literature and to inscriptions carved in stone across the Roman Empire. What emerges is a richly varied and perhaps surprising picture. Hundreds of epitaphs, commissioned by men and women, citizens and slaves, record the commemoration of friends, which is of equal importance to understanding Roman friendship as Cicero's influential essay De amicitia.