Craig A. Williams

Reading Roman Friendship

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of friendship in ancient Rome attentive to gender and social status, language and the commemoration of the dead.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781107003651
• ISBN-10: 1107003652
• Artikelnr.: 35497119

Autorenporträt

Craig A. Williams is Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and in 2006 he was awarded Brooklyn College's Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship. He is the author of the acclaimed Roman Homosexuality, 2nd edition (2010), an introduction and commentary in Martial: Epigrams, Book Two (2004) and numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature and Roman culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: reading Roman friendship
1. Men and women
2. Love and friendship I: questions and themes
3. Love and friendship II: authors and texts
4. Friendship and death: the culture of commemoration.