Abstract
Adapting their title from Fantham's social history of Roman literature,1 the editors have compiled thirteen contributions from friends, colleagues, students, and admirers that span a chronological breadth of four hundred years and examine genres ranging from Menippean satire to Latin elegy, from drama to epic, and from letters to law. Bruun uses a fragment of Varro (Men. fr. 531-532) as a springboard for a discussion of Roman flooring techniques and "aquatic luxury" in the Roman house, while Welsh provides a new apparatus criticus for a fragment of Afranius' Vopiscus (378-382 Ribbeck) that contributes to our understanding of gendered language in fabulae togatae. By aligning rape narratives in book 2 of Ovid's Fasti with the Augustan marriage legislation, Fanny Dolansky concludes that these narratives criticize the attempts of the princeps to exert control over the domestic sphere. Clifford Ando examines legal and political documents that indicate Rome's acceptance of foreign cults,...