LAT 421/521
Basic Bibliographies of Works (in English)
Fall 2023


PETRONIUS
Anderson, G., 1984, Ancient Fiction: The Novel in the Greco-Roman World, London.
Bodel, J., 1984, "Freedmen in the Satyricon of Petronius" (diss. University of Michigan). Ann Arbor.
Bodel, J., 1999, "The Cena Trimalchionis," pp. 38-51 in Hofmann (1999).
Boyce, B., 1991, The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis, Leiden.
Buckey, E. 2013, Blackwell's Companion to the Neronian Age. Malden, MA.
Conners, C., 1998, Petronius the Poet, Cambridge.
Conte, G.B., 1996, The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon, Berkeley.
Courtney, E. A, 2001, Companion to Petronius, Oxford.
Cueva, E. et al. 2014. Blackwell's Companion to the Ancient Novel. Malden, MA.
Hofmann, H. (ed.), 1999, Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context, London.
Panayotakis, C., 1995, Theatrical Elements in the Satyrica of Petronius, Leiden.
Paschalis, M. et al. 2015, Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative (Supplement 19).
Plaza, M., 2000,  Laughter and Derision in Petronius' Satyrica: a Literary Study, Stockholm.
Prag, J. R. W. and I. Repath (eds.), 2009, Petronius: A Handbook. Malden, MA.
Rankin, H.D., 1971, Petronius the Artist: Essays on the Satyricon and its Author, The Hague.
Rimell, V., 2002, Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction, Cambridge.
Schmeling, G. (ed.), 1996, The Novel in the Ancient World. Leiden.
Schmeling, G. 2011. A Commentary on the Satyrica of Petronius. Oxford.
Slater, N.W., 1990, Reading Petronius, Baltimore.
Sullivan, J.P., 1968, The Satyricon of Petronius: A Literary Study, Bloomington, IN.
Tatum, J. (ed.), 1994, The Search for the Ancient Novel, Baltimore.
Walsh, P.G. 1970, The Roman Novel: The "Satyricon" of Petronius and the "Metamorphoses" of Apuleius, Cambridge.
Zeitlin, F., 1971, "Petronius as Paradox: Anarchy and Artistic Integrity,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 102: 631-84. 

LUCAN
Ahl, F., 1976, Lucan: An Introduction. Ithaca.
Asso, P. (ed.), 2011, Brill's Companion to Lucan, Leiden.
Bartsch, S., 1994, Actors in the Audience. Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian, Cambridge, MA.
Bartsch, S., 1997, Ideology in Cold Blood. A Reading of Lucan's Civil War, Cambridge, MA.
Behr, F. 2007, Feeling History. Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion, Columbus, OH.
Bexley, E. M., 2009, “Replacing Rome: Geographic and Political Centrality in Lucan's Pharsalia,” Classical Philology 104: 459-75.
Bonner, S.F., 1966, “Lucan and the Declamatory Schools' American Journal of Philology 87: 257-89.
Bramble, J., 1982, “Lucan,” pp. 533-57 in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature II: Latin Literature, Cambridge.
Buckey, E. 2013, Blackwell's Companion to the Neronian Age. Malden, MA.
Day, H.J.M, 2013, Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience, Cambridge.
Dick, B.F., 1963, “The Technique of Prophecy in Lucan,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 94: 37-49.
Faber, R.A., 2005, “The Adaptation of Apostrophe in Lucan's Bellum Civile,” pp. 334-43 in C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 12, Brussels.
Fantham, E. “The Angry poet and the Angry Gods: Problems of Theodicy in Lucan's Epic of Defeat,” pp. 229-49 in S. Braund and G. W. Most (eds.), Ancient Anger. Perspectives from Homer to Galen, Cambridge.
Feeney, D.C., 1991, The Gods in Epic, Oxford.
Hardie, P., 1993, The Epic Successors of Virgil, Cambridge.
Hershkowitz, D., 1998, Madness in Epic. Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius, Oxford.
Hinds, S., 1998, Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry, Cambridge.
Johnson, W.R., 1987, Momentary Monsters: Lucan and his Heroes, Ithaca.
Keith, A. M., 2000, Engendering Rome. Women in Latin Epic, Cambridge.
Lapidge, M., 1979, “Lucan's Imagery of Cosmic Dissolution,” Hermes 107: 344-70
Leigh, M., 1997, Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement, Oxford.
Leigh, M., 2000, “Lucan and the Libyan Tale,” Journal of Roman Studies 90: 95-109.
Maes, Y., 2009, “One But Not the Same? Cato and Alexander in Lucan's Pharsalia 9,493-618 (and Caesar too),” Latomus 68: 657-79.
Masters, J., 1992, Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile, Cambridge.
Morford, M.P.O., 1967, The Poet Lucan: Studies in Rhetorical Epic, Oxford.
O'Hara, J., 2007, Inconsistency in Roman Epic. Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan, Cambridge.  
Sklenár, R. , 2003, The Taste for Nothingness. A Study of "virtus" and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile. Ann Arbor.
Spencer, D., “Lucan's Follies. Memory and Ruin in a Civil-war Landscape, Greece & Rome 52: 46-68.
Tracy, J., 2010, “Fallentia Sidera: The Failure of Astronomical Escapism in Lucan,” American Journal of Philology 131: 635-61.
Walde, C., 2006, “Caesar, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Their Reception,” pp. 45-61 in: M. Wyke (ed.), Julius Caesar in Western Culture, Oxford.
Wheeler, S. M., 2002, “Lucan's reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses.” Arethusa 35: 361-80.

SENECA
Annas, J., 1993, The Morality of Happiness, Oxford.
Bartsch, S. and D. Wray (eds.), 2009, Seneca and the Self, Cambridge.
Bartsch, S. and A. Schiesaro (eds.), 2015. Cambridge Companion to Seneca. Cambridge.
Cooper, J. M., 2004 (ed.), Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy, Princeton.
Edwards, C., 1997, “Self-scrutiny and Self-transformation in Seneca's Letters," Greece & Rome, 44: 23–38.
Graver, M, 2007, Stoicism and Emotion, Chicago.
Griffin, M., 1992, Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics 2nd edn., Oxford.
Gunderson, E., 2015, Sublime Seneca: Ethics, Literature, Metaphysics. Cambridge.
Ierodiakonou, K., (ed.), 2001, Topics in Stoic Philosophy, Oxford.
Inwood, B., 1985, Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism, Oxford.
Inwood, B., 2003, (ed), The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, Cambridge.
Inwood, B, 2005, Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome, Oxford.
Inwood, B. (trs.), 2007, Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters, with an introduction and commentary, Oxford.
Long, A.A., (ed.), 2006, From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, Oxford.
Nussbaum, M. C., 1994, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton.
Rist, J., 1969, Stoic Philosophy, Cambridge.
Russell, D. C., 2004, “Virtue as ‘Likeness to God’ in Plato and Seneca,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 42: 241–60.
Veyne, P., 2003, Seneca: the life of a Stoic, tr. by David Sullivan, New York.
Vogt, K. M., 2008, Law, Reason, and the Cosmic City: Political Philosophy in the Early Stoa, Oxford.
Volk, K., and G. Williams (eds.), 2006, Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 28), Leiden.

JUVENAL
Anderson, W. S., 1982, Essays on Roman Satire, Princeton.
Braund, S., 1989, Satire and Society in Ancient Rome, Exeter Studies in History 23, Exeter.
Braund, S.M, 1996, The Roman Satirists and Their Masks, Bristol.
Braund, S.M (ed.), 1992, Roman Verse Satire (Greece & Rome 23), Oxford.
Braund, S.M. et al., 2012, Blackwell's Companion to Persius and Juvenal, Malden, MA.
Coffey, M., 1976, Roman Satire, London.
Courtney, E., 2013, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal, Berkeley.
Edwards, C., 1993, The Politics of Immorality, Cambridge.
Freudenburg, K., 2001, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal, Cambridge.
Gowers, E., 1993, The Loaded Table, Oxford.
Griffin, D.H, 1994, Satire: A Critical Reintroduction, Lexington.
Henderson, J., 1999, Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy and Other Offenses in Latin Poetry, Oxford.
Highet, G., 1962, The Anatomy of Satire, Princeton.
Highet, G., 1974, “Masks and Faces in Satire,” Hermes 102: 321-37.
Hutchinson, G.O., 1993, Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal: a Critical Study, Oxford.
Knoche, U., 1975, Roman Satire, trs. E. S. Ramage, Bloomington.

Larmour, D., 2016, Arena of Satire: Juvenal's Search for Rome, Norman, OK.
Richlin, A., 1992, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, New York.
Romano, A.C., 1979, Irony in Juvenal, Hildesheim.
Rudd, N., 1986, Themes in Roman Satire, London.
Tengstrom, E., 1980, A Study in Juvenal’s 10th Satire, Goteborg.
Udens, J., 2015, The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome, Oxford.
Williams, C.A., 1999, Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity, Oxford.
Winkler, M.M., 1983, The Persona in Three Satires of Juvenal, Hildesheim.
Witke, C., 1970, Latin Satire: The Structure of Persuasion, Leiden.

SUETONIUS
Baldwin B., 1983, Suetonius: The Biographer of the Caesars, Amsterdam.
Bartsch, S., 1994, Actors in the Audience. Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian, Cambridge, MA.
Bradley K.R., 1978, Suetonius’ Life of Nero: A Historical Commentary, Brussels.
Bradley, K.R., 1991, “The Imperial Ideal in Suetonius’ ‘Caesares,’” in Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.33.5: 3,701-3,732.
Elsner, J. and J. Masters (eds.), 1994, Reflections of Nero, London.
Griffin, M., 1984, Nero: the End of a Dynasty, London.
Jones B.W., 2002, “Suetonius,” in The Flavian Emperors: A Historical Commentary, Bristol.
Lewis, R.G., 1991, “Suetonius’ ‘Caesares’ and their Literary Antecedents,” in Aufsteig und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.33.5: 3,623-3,674.
Lounsbury R.C., 1987, The Arts of Suetonius: An Introduction, New York.
Pagan, V., 2012, Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature, Austin, TX.
Plass, P., 1988, Wit and the Writing of History: the Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial Rome, Madison.
Saller, R., 1980. “Anecdotes as Historical Evidence for the Principate,” Greece & Rome 27: 69-83.
Syme, R., 1981, “The Travels of Suetonius Tranquillus,” Hermes 109: 105-17.
Wallace-Hadrill A., 1984, Suetonius: The Scholar and His Caesars, New Haven.
Townend, G.B., 1967, “Suetonius and his Influence,” pp. 79-111 in T.A. Dorey (ed.), Latin Biography, London
Wardle, D. 1998, “Suetonius in His Own Day,” pp. 425-47 in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 9, ed. C. Deroux, Brussels.

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