Disorienting Empire: Republican Latin Poetry's Wanderers by Basil Dufallo
English | July 15, 2021 | ISBN: 0197571786 | True EPUB/PDF | 328 pages | 4/20.9 MB
Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to imagine the ever-widening spaces of Roman power as a place where one could become disoriented, both in terms of geographical wandering and in a more abstract sense connected with identity and identification, especially as it concerned gender and sexuality.
