TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Craig A.
TI  - Reading Roman friendship
SN  - 1139782320
AV  - PA6029.F75 W55 2012eb
U1  - 870.9/353 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Friendship in literature
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Amitié dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature latine
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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