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...

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Main Author: Gardner, Hunter H.,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Edition: First edition.
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
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