Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature

ISBN: 9780198796428 出版年：2019 页码：316 Gardner, Hunter H Oxford University Press

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 social order and suggest remedies for its recovery.