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The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of

speci®c ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language,

a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the

sources of these metaphors and analyzes their e¨ect on how

Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have

become idÂes ®xes not only in the popular imagination but in

the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By

reading with and more commonly against these metaphors,

the book o¨ers a di¨erent view of Latin as a language and

as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over

a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by

many di¨erent sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth

century. The author's central aim is to provoke more new

readings that would both extend and complicate those that it

o¨ers, in order to catalyze revisionist thinking about Latin

texts of all periods and about the general contours of the dis-

cipline of Latin studies.

joseph farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Vergil's Georgics

and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991) and of papers on

classical literature and culture. He is the director of The Vergil

Project (http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu) and editor of Vergilius.

ROMAN LITERATURE

AND ITS CONTEXTS

Latin Language and Latin Culture

ROMAN LITERATURE

AND ITS CONTEXTS

Series editors

Denis Feeney and Stephen Hinds

This series promotes approaches to Roman literature which are open to dialogue with

current work in other areas of the classics, and in the humanities at large. The pursuit

of contacts with cognate ®elds such as social history, anthropology, history of

thought, linguistics and literary theory is in the best traditions of classical scholarship:

the study of Roman literature, no less than Greek, has much to gain from engaging

with these other contexts and intellectual traditions. The series o¨ers a forum in

which readers of Latin texts can sharpen their readings by placing them in broader

and better-de®ned contexts, and in which other classicists and humanists can explore

the general or particular implications of their work for readers of Latin texts. The

books all constitute original and innovative research and are envisaged as suggestive

essays whose aim is to stimulate debate.

Other books in the series

Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: textual approaches to the city

Denis Feeney, Literature and religion at Rome: cultures,

contexts, and beliefs

William Fitzgerald, Slavery and the Roman literary imagination

Philip Hardie, The epic successors of Virgil: a study

in the dynamics of a tradition

Stephen Hinds, Allusion and intertext: dynamics of

appropriation in Roman poetry

A. M. Keith, Engendering Rome: women in Latin epic

Duncan F. Kennedy, The arts of love: ®ve studies

in the discourse of Roman love elegy

Charles Martindale, Redeeming the text: Latin poetry

and the hermeneutics of reception

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