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In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed; yet its faults have not only provoked censure but also inspired wayward and novel forms of thought and representation. This volume is the first to examine this phenomenon in depth, demonstrating that the reception of Roman "errors" has been far more complex than sweeping denunciation.
List of contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 0: Basil Dufallo: Introduction
- 1: Caroline Vout: The Error of Roman Aesthetics
- 2: Marc Bizer: Whose Mistake? The Errors of Friendship in Cicero, La Boétie, and Montaigne
- 3: Craig Williams: Friends, Romans, Errors: Moments in the Reception of amicitia
- 4: Joy Connolly: Past Sovereignty: Roman Freedom for Modern Revolutionaries
- 5: Margaret Malamud: Receptions of Rome in Debates on Slavery in the USA
- 6: Catharine Edwards: The Romance of Roman Error: Encountering Antiquity in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
- 7: Marco Formisano: Im Sinne der Antike : Masochism as Roman Error in Venus in Furs
- 8: Michèle Lowrie and Barbara Vinken: Correcting Rome with Rome: Victor Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize
- 9: John Carlos Rowe: The Roman Aura in Henry James's Daisy Miller: A Study (1878)
- 10: Maria Wyke: The Pleasures and Punishments of Roman Error: Emperor Elagabalus at the Court of Early Cinema
- 11: Richard Fletcher: Psychic Life in the Eternal City: Julia Kristeva and the Narcissism of Rome
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Basil Dufallo is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. He is the author of two monographs - The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (The Ohio State University Press, 2007) and The Captor's Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (OUP, 2013) - as well as articles on Latin literature and Roman culture, and has also co-edited, with Peggy McCracken, the volume Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Summary
In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed; yet its faults have not only provoked censure but also inspired wayward and novel forms of thought and representation. This volume is the first to examine this phenomenon in depth, demonstrating that the reception of Roman "errors" has been far more complex than sweeping denunciation.
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This interesting book of essays (with a useful introduction by the editor) examines both perceived flaws in Roman life and also the flawed ways in which this flawed past has been received...The book is well illustrated with nine monochrome plates and there is a general index as well as a bibliography.
