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This book exploits recent reevaluations of Roman religion in order to argue in favor of taking the religious dimensions of Roman literature seriously, as important cultural work in their own right. Instead of seeing Roman religious and literary activity as derivative and parasitic upon Greek originals, the book questions the romanticizing biases of classical studies, and argues for the power and creativity of the Romans in their engagements with Greek culture.
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Literature and Religion At Rome : Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs Roman Literature and Its Contexts
author
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Feeney, D. C.
publisher
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Cambridge University Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780521551045
ebook isbn13
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9780511001505
language
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English
subject
Religious poetry, Latin--History and criticism, Religious drama, Latin--History and criticism, Latin literature--History and criticism, Mythology, Roman, in literature, Rome--Religious life and customs, Religion and literature--Rome, Rome--Religion.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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PA6029.R4F44 1998eb
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870.9/382
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Religious poetry, Latin--History and criticism, Religious drama, Latin--History and criticism, Latin literature--History and criticism, Mythology, Roman, in literature, Rome--Religious life and customs, Religion and literature--Rome, Rome--Religion.
Literature and Religion at Rome
ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS
Page i
Rather than asking how religion is transmuted into literature, we should, Denis Feeney argues, be thinking in terms of a range of cultural practices, interacting, competing, and defining each other in the process. Capitalising on recent revaluations of Roman religion by ancient historians, which have stressed the vitality and creativity of the Romans' religious system throughout its long history of continual adaptation to new challenges, this book argues that Roman literature was not an artificial or parasitic irrelevance in this context, but an important element of the dynamic religious culture, with its own status as another form of religious knowledge. Since Roman culture, both literary and religious, was so thoroughly Hellenised, the author also makes a case for a reconsideration of the traditional antitheses between Greek and Roman literature and religion, arguing against Hellenocentric prejudices and in favour of a more creative model of cultural interaction.
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ROMAN LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS
Series editors Denis Feeney and Stephen Hinds
This series promotes approaches to Roman literature which are open to dialogue with current work in other areas of the classics, and in the humanities at large. The pursuit of contacts with cognate fields such as social history, anthropology, history of thought, linguistics and literary theory is in the best traditions of classical scholarship: the study of Roman literature, no less than Greek, has much to gain from engaging with these other contexts and intellectual traditions. The series offers a forum in which readers of Latin texts can sharpen their readings by placing them in broader and betterdefined contexts, and in which other classicists and humanists can explore the general or particular implications of their work for readers of Latin texts. The books all constitute original and innovative research and are envisaged as suggestive essays whose aim is to stimulate debate.
Other books in the series
Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: textual approaches to the city
Philip Hardie, The epic successors of Virgil: a study in the dynamics of a tradition
Stephen Hinds, Allusion and intertext: dynamics of appropriation in Roman poetry
Duncan F. Kennedy, The arts of love: five studies in the discourse of Roman love elegy
Charles Martindale, Redeeming the text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception
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Literature and Religion at Rome
Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs
Denis Feeney
Fellow and Tutor of New College, University of Oxford
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First published 1998
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Feeney, Denis. Literature and religion at Rome: cultures, contexts, and beliefs / Denis Feeney. p. cm. (Roman literature and its contexts) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 55104 8 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 55921 9 (paperback) 1. Religious poetry, Latin History and criticism. 2. Religious drama, Latin History and criticism. 3. Latin literature History and criticism 4. Mythology, Roman, in literature. 5. Rome Religious life and customs. 6. Religion and literature Rome. 7. Rome Religion. I. Title. II. Series. PA6029.R4F44 1998 870.9'382dc21 976950 CIP
ISBN 0 521 55104 8 hardback ISBN 0 521 55921 9 paperback eISBN [0511001509] virtual (netLibrary Edition)
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For my parents, who first taught me literature and religion
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