Abused Bodies in Roman Epic by Andrew M. McClellan

Abused Bodies in Roman Epic

Andrew M. McClellan

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Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. Sometimes corpses take centre-stage in grand funerals; sometimes, disturbingly, they are objects of physical violen...

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