Reading Roman FriendshipThis 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 the spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Petronius' Satyricon to the philosophical writings of Cicero and Seneca, from letters exchanged by the emperor Marcus Aurelius and his beloved teacher Fronto, to those written by men and women at an outpost in northern Britain. One of the most innovative features of this study is the equal attention it pays to Latin literature and to inscriptions carved in stone across the Roman Empire. What emerges is a richly varied and perhaps surprising picture. Hundreds of epitaphs, commissioned by men and women, citizens and slaves, record the commemoration of friends, which is of equal importance to Reading Roman Friendship as is Cicero's influential essay De amicitia. |
Contents
Men and women | 63 |
questions and themes | 116 |
authors and texts | 174 |
the culture of commemoration | 259 |
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Agathias amator amica amici amicitia amico amicus amiea amieus amor and amicitia atque Atticus bond brother burial C(aio C(aius Catullus Chapter Cicero’s Cisalpine Gaul commemorated commissioned configurations couplet D(is Daphnus dedicated describes Encolpius enim epigram epitaphs eros erotic etiam example f(ilio fecit figure final find first first century formula freeborn freed slaves freedmen freedmen and freedwomen Gaius Gallus Gellius Greek Helttula ideals identified inscriptions Isola Sacra joined kisses label Laelius language of amicitia Latin textual tradition letters lover Lucius M(anibus Maecenas male man’s Marcus memory merenti mihi noun one’s Orestes pairs Phileros phrase poem poetry Pompeii Pronto Propertius Publius Pylades quae quam quid Quintus quod Reali reflections relationship role Roman friendship Rome Satyricon sexual sibi significant soror specific speech genre suggests sunt Terentia tion tomb Valerius Valerius Maximus Vindolanda Virgil’s wife woman women words