Latin literature / Susanna Morton Braund.

Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid.
Role models for Roman women and men in Livy.
What is Latin literature?
What does studying Latin literature involve?
Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity.
Performance and spectacle, life and death.
Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons.
Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery.
Writing 'real' lives.
Introspection and individual identity.
Literary texture and intertextuality.
Metapoetics.
Allegory.
Overcoming an inferiority complex: the relationship with Greek literature.
Building Rome and building Roman literature.
Extract from Darkness visible / by W.R. Johnson.
Who's afraid of literary theory? / by Simon Goldhill.