Understanding Latin Literature- Front Cover -- Understanding Latin Literature -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- About this book -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Virgil and the meaning of the Aeneid -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 2: Role models for Roman women and men in Livy -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 3: What is Latin literature? -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 4: What does studying Latin literature involve? -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 5: Receptions and reverberations of Latin literature -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 6: Making Roman identity: multiculturalism, militarism and masculinity -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 7: Performance and spectacle, life and death -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 8: Intersections of power: praise, politics and patrons -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 9: Annihilation and abjection: living death and living slavery -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 10: Writing 'real' lives -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 11: Introspection and individual identity -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 12: Literary texture and intertextuality -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 13: Metapoetics -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 14: Allegory -- Further reading and study -- Chapter 15: Overcoming an inferiority complex: constructing Roman literature -- Further reading and study -- Authors and texts -- Primary sources -- Translations used or adapted -- Timeline -- Index of names and topics -- Index of passages