Pestilence and the body politic in Latin literature
Roman writers of the late Roman Republic and early Empire developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the destabilization of the body politic. This volume examines how they used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the so...
Main Author: | Gardner, Hunter H., |
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Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Oxford scholarship online.
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CMU Electronic Access
Electronic Resource Click HereLocation | Call Number: | Status |
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CMU Electronic Access | Available |