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Writing, performance, and authority in Augustan Rome

An exploration of the relationship between poetry, song, and authority in Augustan Rome. Michèle Lowrie argues that the medium of writing, as opposed to song, could offer an escape from current social and political demands by shifting the focus toward the readership of posterity

Print Book, English, 2009
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009