Leisured Resistance: Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World
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Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate retirement from everyday politics) to present radical and competing visions of society and literature alike...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1474244025
ISBN13:9781474244022
Release Date:June 2015
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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