Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination

by William Fitzgerald

Book Overview

This book deals with the ways in which the ancient Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It asks what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. The book covers the full range of Roman literature, and is arranged thematically. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, and also the ways in which slavery provided...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521779693
• ISBN13: 9780521779692
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"