Understanding 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?
Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature
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: constructing Roman literature.