The Politics of Latin Literature:
Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome
Thomas N. Habinek

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	Latin Literature and the Problem of Rome	15
Ch. 2	Why Was Latin Literature Invented?	34
Ch. 3	Cicero and the Bandits	69
Ch. 4	Culture Wars in the First Century B.C.E.	88
Ch. 5	Writing as Social Performance	103
Ch. 6	Roman Women's Useless Knowledge	122
Ch. 7	An Aristocracy of Virtue	137
Ch. 8	Pannonia Domanda Est: The Construction of the Imperial Subject through Ovid's Poetry from Exile	151
	Notes	171
	Index of Passages Cited	223
	General Index	229

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