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This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations, pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives, genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-exami...

Disgust is an essential human emotion that has remained mostly neglected, even in modern, "emotional turn" scholarship.

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This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations, pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives, genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-exami...

The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography, ancient history, rhetoric, and the history of ideas.