Reading Roman friendship / Craig A. Williams.

This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Williams, Craig A. (Craig Arthur), 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Men and women
  • Love and friendship: questions and themes
  • Love and friendship: authors and texts
  • Friendship and the grave: the culture of commemoration.