Pestilence and the body politic in Latin literature / Hunter H. Gardner.
2019
PA6029
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Title
Pestilence and the body politic in Latin literature / Hunter H. Gardner.
Author
Gardner, Hunter H., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191837708 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PA6029
Dewey Decimal Classification
870.93561
Summary
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.
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This edition also issued in print: 2019.
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 18, 2019).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198796428
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